Izaak Walton Quotes

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.