Robert Ruark Quotes

12 quotes in 294 categories

• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can…
• Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy…
• You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps.…
• If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or…
• Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start…
• If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he…
• But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to…
• A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
• Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.
• Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to…
• When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or…
• Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the…

Browse Robert Ruark Quotes by Category