# Izaak Walton

- Quotes: 24
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton

## Books

- [The Compleat Angler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler.md) — 24 quotes

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> It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

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> Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

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> No man can lose what he never had.

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> Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."

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> 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.

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> This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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> As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

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> As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

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> Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.

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> 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.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/we-may-say.md)

> I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

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> 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.

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