Angling Quotes

It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. (Stephen Leacock)
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. View quote
Izaak Walton
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. View quote
Izaak Walton
You 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. View quote
Izaak Walton
We 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. View quote
Izaak Walton
He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare - a hobby more patient than angling. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. View quote
Izaak Walton
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so. View quote
Izaak Walton
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. (Izaak Walton)
Sir 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." View quote
Izaak Walton
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice. View quote
Izaak Walton
'T was merry when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. View quote
Antony and Cleopatra