01c. 1638 ADOf which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
02c. 1638 ADAngling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
04c. 1638 ADI 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.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
05c. 1638 ADAs the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
07c. 1638 ADIt [angling] deserves commendations; . . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
09c. 1638 ADDoubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
10c. 1638 ADSir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."Izaak Walton / quote ↗
11c. 1638 ADYou will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
12c. 1638 ADI remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."Izaak Walton / quote ↗
17c. 1638 ADWe may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
18c. 1638 ADThus use your frog: put your hook—I mean the arming wire—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.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
19c. 1638 ADThis dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
20c. 1638 ADHealth is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,—a blessing that money cannot buy.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
21c. 1638 ADAnd upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
22c. 1638 ADBut God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him; marked him for his own.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
24c. 1638 ADOh, the gallant fisher's life! It is the best of any; 'T is full of pleasure, void of strife, And 't is beloved by many.Izaak Walton / quote ↗
