# Quote — Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler

> I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

- Author: [Izaak Walton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton.md)
- Book: [The Compleat Angler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/i-have-laid

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/it-angling-deserves.md)

> 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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/angling-is-somewhat.md)

> No man can lose what he never had.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/no-man-can.md)