16 Famous Quotes by Izaak Walton
8/9/1593 - 12/15/1683
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About Izaak Walton
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.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon
one another next morning.
Mirth
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Rivers
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XVIII)
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Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a
blessing that money cannot buy.
Health
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XXI)
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it
next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that
we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
Health
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XXI)
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A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.
Food
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.
Eating
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of
date.
Flyfishing
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface)
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Oh the brave Fisher's life,
It is the best of any,
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis belov'd of many:
Other joys Are but toys;
Only this Lawful is,
For our skill Breeds no ill,
But content and pleasure.
Fishermen
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (ch. XI), (first edition)
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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.
Fishermen
Quotes, by Izaak Walton , Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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