Izaak Walton Quotes

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

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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Izaak Walton

I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.

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Thus use your frog... Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;... and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

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An honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.

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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

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As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

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

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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton

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Born: August 9, 1593

Died: December 15, 1683 (aged 90)

Bio: Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

Known for:

The Compleat Angler: Classic Fishing Books (1653)
Contemplative Man's Recreation
Lives of Donne and Herbert

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