Quote#Love
Thus use your frog...Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his…
Quote byIzaak Walton · 1593–1683
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, ch. 8.
English (original)
Thus use your frog...Put your hook 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
More from Izaak Walton
I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.
But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his blessed Spirit.
God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
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 …
Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.