| 16 Famous Quotes by Izaak Walton
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“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”
Conversation Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XVIII)
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“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”
Rivers Quotes 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 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 Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XXI)
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“A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.”
Food Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon
one another next morning.”
Mirth Quotes 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 Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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“No man can lose what he never had.”
Loss Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. V)
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“And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of
date.”
Flyfishing Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface)
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“No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.”
Fishermen Quotes 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 Source: The Compleat Angler (ch. XI), (first edition)
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“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”
Fishermen Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. I)
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.”
Fishermen Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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“The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”
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“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”
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“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”
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Izaak Walton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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