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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:
“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”
“These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.”
Source: The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...
“And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.”
“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”
Source: The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
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