Favourite quotes - Here's mine, Quite a long list. What's yours?

[Scanos]

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D.H. Lawrence, 1923

 

[Newboomer]

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D.H. Lawrence, 1923

"Most people don't know how much they don't know." Ignatius Piazza, Front Sight.

 

[bashaw]

"Hold out as long as you can, then give her back to the Indians"

From My Gramps to my Dad when things were going to hell in a hand basket on the farm during harvest in the 1960's

 

[Ragman]

"If he goes to college one more year he will be completely mentally retarded"

circa 1982, from my Dad about my brother in his junior year at University, luckily my brother survived

My father who is nearly 82 and a lifelong farmer dropped of high school after grade 11. He liked to tell me that there is a big difference between intelligent and educated.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Another from Pop probably useful on DG hunts. "When in doubt, make sure his lights are completely out".

 

[CEO]

One I use all the time. Went to work with my Grandpa (Pop as we called him) on a pond digging job. He gets finished and we load up the dozer and I say something along the lines of, "you probably made a lot of money on this job."

He says, "Michael, if it cost a nickel to go around the world, I couldn't get outta sight".

 

[Rare Breed]

"In the end, we will only conserve what we love. We will love only what we understand: And we will understand only what we have experienced"

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science” - Albert Einstein

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein.

"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt" Julius Ceaser = "men generally believe what they want to believe.”

"At least once every human being should have to run for his life - to teach him that milk does not come from the supermarket, that safety does not come from policemen, and that news is not something that happens to other people." - Robert Heinlein"

Jagd ohne Hund ist Schund! "

"On préfère la brousse, n'est-ce pas?"

"No matter how confident a government’s assurances may be, or how persistently it may dissuade its citizenry from attempting to solve their own problems, or how suffocating its blanket of regulations may become, there will eventually come a day when the power goes out, a hurricane or tornado appears, the police are busy, or a wildfire threatens – and government help is nowhere to be found.And when that time comes, everyone has a choice to make. Do you meekly accept the situation in accordance with your government-mandated helplessness? Or do you and those you know and trust take matters into your own hands − do you turn and head into the fire? "

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” - T. Roosevelt

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

Ultreïa! Every morning we take the path, Every morning we go further. Day after day, the road calls us It is the voice of Compostela. Go further! Go further! And go higher! God helps us! Ultreïa!

Saint Hubert is my favourite saint. Through his accomplishments and work in different fields he is named the the patron saint of:archers, hunters, dogbreeders, houndsmen, mathematicians, metal workers, forest workers, smelters, precision instruments, optics, & trapping.He also managed to have 3 military orders formed in his honor, a town in Saskatchewan named after him and his personal crest on every bottle of Jägermeister.

This Is The Hunters Badge Of Glory ,
That He Protect And Tend His Quarry
And Hunt With Honor As Is Due ,
And Through The Beast To The Lord Be True .
Weapons Of War Are By Hatred Run
Yet Love For Game Fires Our Gun .
Therefore Ponder Your Daily Bread ,
Did Your Game Not Suffer Dread ?
Guard Game From Man And Beast Alike ,
Make Brief It's Death, Make Sure Your Strike
Be Outside Rough Yet Mild Inside
And The Badge Of Glory Pure Abide!

in case an elephant charges, - ‘Quando omni flunkus, moritati’"

Would you rather die with your dreams, or with your memories?

"Cattle die, kinsmen die
you yourself die;
One thing now,
that never dies
the fame of a dead man's deeds"

'with affection, "all men, especially hunters, are selfish liars" - Agnes Herbert

A little from my Southern heritage. “ you can tell a man his bird dog is ugly, never tell a man his bird dog can’t hunt”

 

[Don458]

If i don’t come back tell my Mother I love her, “But you’re Mothers dead” Well then I’ll tell her myself.

 

[cash_tx]

Every sunny day, my 80 year old coffee buddy says "It's so nice out, I think I'll just leave it out".

... and he says to our heavyset coffee buddy, "Until your wife met you, she never had so much on her and so little in her".

 

[Papa72]

“Son, if you ain’t in bed by 11 come on home.” Daddy Papa72

 

[BigSteve57]

"It's only hubris if I fail."
Julius Caesar

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Neil Molendyk]

Good breeding counts in horses, cattle, dogs and women. Don't marry stupid

 

[Newboomer]

Good breeding counts in horses, cattle, dogs and women. Don't marry stupid

Keep your mouth shut and no one will know you're a damn fool.
He opened his mouth and his brains fell out.

 

[Ridge Runner]

My favorites:

Work hard, Play harder, Drie hardest.... if death is certain take as many (bad guys) with you to save your comrades.

Born to raise Hell....and Look where we're at.

The Greatest Fear is Fear itself.... Unless you are in the crosshairs of a highly motivated, highly trained, highly skilled sniper then there is No Greater Fear. HOOYAAHH!!

"....a man has got to no his limitations."

On the contrary.....There is No Good Time or Day to Die.

The Greatest Loss in Life is Time Not Well Spent.

Learn with your eyes and ears not by running your mouth.

 

[Scott CWO]

“If you only visit two continents in your lifetime, visit Africa twice.” R. Elliot

 

[Major Bonkers]

Tacitus: The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Annals, book XV, ch. 50)

Marcus Aurelius: Be like the rocky promontory against which the waves continually break, but stands firm and tames the fury of the water about it. (Meditations)

Shakespeare: I dare do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none. (Macbeth)

Many of the one-liners from the gubernator. It is necessary, of course, to adopt an outrageous Austrian accent when quoting these:

[The barbarians are enjoying a dinner party when their chief asks,'What is best in life?' One pipes up: a swift horse on the open steppe - boo! - another: the soft caresses of a woman - rubbish! - our hero:]

To crush your enemies, drive dem before you, und hear de lamentation of der vimmin. (Conan the Barbarian)

(This is actually stolen from Genghis Khan: The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.)

You are von oogly modder-focker. (Predator)

Ah, the 1980s! The greatest decade in American cinema.

 

[Newboomer]

Tacitus: The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Annals, book XV, ch. 50)

Marcus Aurelius: Be like the rocky promontory against which the waves continually break, but stands firm and tames the fury of the water about it. (Meditations)

Shakespeare: I dare do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none. (Macbeth)

Many of the one-liners from the gubernator. It is necessary, of course, to adopt an outrageous Austrian accent when quoting these:

[The barbarians are enjoying a dinner party when their chief asks,'What is best in life?' One pipes up: a swift horse on the open steppe - boo! - another: the soft caresses of a woman - rubbish! - our hero:]

To crush your enemies, drive dem before you, und hear de lamentation of der vimmin. (Conan the Barbarian)

(This is actually stolen from Genghis Khan: The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.)

You are von oogly modder-focker. (Predator)

Ah, the 1980s! The greatest decade in American cinema.

"Actions have consequences." My Mom.
"Use your best judgment." My Dad.

 

[WyoBull]

At each and every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
- From a mentor of mine early in my career

A good pool player is a sign of a misspent youth.
- my uncle

 

[mdwest]

Lions dont lose sleep over the opinions of sheep - Imam Al-Shafi i

 

[Velo Dog]

“Use enough gun”.
(Robert Ruark).