22 quotes
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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)
I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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)
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
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)
Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
An excellent angler, and now with God.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
Let the blessing of St. Peter's Master be...upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
The Compleat Angler (1653)
I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
The Compleat Angler (1653)