Izaak Walton Quotes

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

Izaak Walton

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  

  Donald Heiney
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • God
  • Light
  • Mean

• I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Eye
  • Famous
  • Interest

• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Seven

• What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Father
  • Courage

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Custom

• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Stupid

• Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Animal
  • Rule
  • Convicts

• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Talent

• The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

  

  Brooks Johnson
  • Risks
  • Winners

• Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose mankind will all agree. The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

  

  Sappho
  • Flower
  • Rose
  • Mankind

• I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Danger
  • Meet
  • Fence

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

  

  Izaak Walton
  • Rivers
  • Contemplate
  • Pass By