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
friends-or-friendship love mirth next
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
english-writer
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
thanksgiving gratitude heart
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
wise men fishing
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
learning math fishing
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
fitness health blessing
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
blessing missing misery
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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.
gratitude grateful blessing
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
learning loss persons
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.