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Famous Izaak Walton Quotes
Source: The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:
“Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.”
“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”
Source: The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
Source: The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative Notes
“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
“Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did”
Source: The Complete Angler
“Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.”
Source: The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers