Izaak Walton's Quotes

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

No man can lose what he never had.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.