Izaak Walton Quotes

"No man can lose what he never had."
-Izaak Walton in Possessions quotes.

"So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies."
-Izaak Walton

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. "
-Izaak Walton

"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
-Izaak Walton

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
-Izaak Walton

"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."
-Izaak Walton in Money quotes.

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
-Izaak Walton in Birds quotes.

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
-Izaak Walton

"God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. "
-Izaak Walton

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
-Izaak Walton

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."
-Izaak Walton