The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds. The same principle applies to speech. The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into a sentence will not get results. Not every word is of special importance—therefore only certain words demand emphasis.
Hunting Quotes
No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
No one is forced to be a politician. It can only compare with fox hunting and writing poetry. These are two things that men do for sheer enjoyment, too.
The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, especially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is asleep […]
Hunters, mostly men, measure their strength or cunningness by comparing themselves to their animal competitors. For this reason, sportsmen prefer those animals which behave like an equal (human) opponent, a male, wearing “weapons” and fighting back. Their opponents become enemies as shooting is a metaphor of warfare.
‘Unting is all that’s worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in ‘unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
I have heard a clergyman of Maine say that in his parish are the Penobscot Indians and that when anyone of them in summer has been absent for some weeks hunting, he comes back among them a different person and altogether unlike the rest with an eagle’s eye, a wild look, and a commanding carriage […]
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
Back to my cabin and the early weeks of bird season with the wind off Lake Superior at over forty knots during a three-day blow, an autumnal torment that usually doesn’t happen until mid-October. Though my dog Rose is nearly eight years old she doesn’t recognize the meaning of bad weather. She watched me pack […]
