Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton
Izaak Waltonwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 August 1593
Izaak Walton quotes about
berries calm innocence
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
hate blessing fishing
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
blessing missing misery
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
fishing rivers conversation
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
brother sea fishing
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
rivers four six
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
children adversity soul
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
health blessing
Health is...a blessing that money cannot buy.
family empathy understanding
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
gratitude flower grateful
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.
beauty beautiful pleasure
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
poetry old-fashioned
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
wise children father
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.
thankful expressing-gratitude great-gratitude
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.