Izaak Walton Quotes

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: God, Men, Daughters, Sons, Words)

"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
(Related: Art, Nature, Musicians, Shame)

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Conscience, Nothing, Worth)

"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Business)

"In so doing, use him as though you loved him."
- Izaak Walton

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Mathematics, May)

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Company, Journey)

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Virtue, Company)

"God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: God, Quiet, Recreation)

"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: God, Heart, Heaven)

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Artist, Man)

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Business)

"No man can lose what he never had."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Man)