The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

To Queen Caroline, 1734, in Hervey ‘Memoirs’ (1848) vol. 1, p. 398
My Lord Bath, you and I are now two as insignificant men as any in England.
To Pulteney, Earl of Bath, on their promotion to the House of Lords, in W. King ‘Political & Literary
Anecdotes’ (1819) p. 43
11.15 William Walsh 1663-1708
And sadly reflecting,
That a lover forsaken
A new love may get,
But a neck when once broken
Can never be set.
‘The Despairing Lover’ l. 17
By partners, in each other kind,
Afflictions easier grow;
In love alone we hate to find
Companions of our woe.
‘Song: Of All the Torments’
I can endure my own despair,
But not another’s hope.
‘Song: Of All the Torments’
11.16 Izaak Walton 1593-1683
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) ‘Epistle to the Reader’
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) ‘Epistle to the Reader’
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) ‘Epistle to the Reader’
I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse;
and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) ‘Epistle to the Reader’
I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
Sir Henry Wotton...was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of
which he would say, ‘it 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.’