Izaak Walton Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1593 – December, 15, 1683.

Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Izaak Walton
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

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- Quiet
- Contention
- Angling

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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- Journey
- Company
- Shorter
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

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- God
- Heart
- Heaven
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Izaak Walton
- God
- Recreation
- Angling
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

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- Men
- Poetry
- Born
No man can lose what he never had.

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- Man
- Lose
- Had
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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- Conscience
- Loses
- Keeping

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Izaak Walton
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Izaak Walton