Hunting Quotes

• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Games

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• Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

  Fred Bear

  Archery, Soul, Hunters

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• Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

  James Mattis

  Military, Army, Hunters

  "Eve of Battle Speech". The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.

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• There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Breasts, Humans

  Oliver Twist ch. 10 (1838)

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• If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Hunters, Ifs

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• Man is a fugitive from nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Fugitive

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.129, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

  David Petersen

  Teacher, Taught, Woods

  David Petersen (2015). “On the Wild Edge: In Search of a Natural Life”, p.100, Holt Paperbacks

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• If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

  William Maxwell

  Motivational, Dog, Imagination

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.404, Vintage

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• Hunting is the last perfect thing.

  Ted Nugent

  Perfect, Lasts, Perfect Things

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• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Luck, Strange, Melancholy

  In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 206

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• There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting And Fishing, Wild Things

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.

  Fred Bear

  Attitude, Soul, Hunters

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• I love my hunting dog. I loved my hunting dog - I'm not very good at hunting.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Dog, Very Good, Hunting Dog

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• Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

  Thomas Harris

  Savages, Fierce, Problem

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.320, Macmillan

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• The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.

  Walter Cronkite

  Archery, Ducks, Peril

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• Hunting is doing business with animals.

  Carl Eckart

  Animal

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.

  Karl Malone

  Funny, Girl, Nba

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• We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gun, Boys, Pity

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Boys, Hunters, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sports, Animal, Gun

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• Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

  Wallis Simpson

  Sports, Foxes, Crime

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• Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Philosophy, Real

  "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.

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• When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

  Marv Levy

  Morning, Fun, Father

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• When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bird, Flying, Lasts

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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