Best Hunting Quotes
488 Hunting quotes by 370 unique authors
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Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
— Archibald Rutledge
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The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
— Archibald Rutledge
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
— Charles Dickens
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of…
— Herman Melville
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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to…
— Will Durant
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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as…
— Clarence Day
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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished…
— James Stewart
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The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
— Henry Fielding
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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
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A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
— Frederick The Great
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I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I…
— Ronald Reagan
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The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against…
— Walter E. Williams
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We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round,…
— Dianne Feinstein
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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more…
— Lou Henry Hoover
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There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but…
— Roger Gale
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of…
— Ian Cawsey
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I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to…
— Ian Cawsey
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As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a…
— Unknown Author
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour…
— Kenneth Clarke
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A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do…
— John Gummer
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There can be no stewardship without stewards.
— Unknown Author
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