God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton Quotes
1593–1683 England
Izaak Walton (9 August 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler.
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Also known as: Isaac Walton
29 quotes
The Compleat Angler (1653)
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
No man can lose what he never had.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
The Compleat Angler (1653)
The Compleat Angler (1653)
An excellent angler, and now with God.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
Life of Herbert (1670)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Izaak Walton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.