160 Hunt Quotes to Inspire and Motivate Your Journey

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Famous Hunt Quotes

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. — Charles Dickens

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. — Tim Vine

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde

Who chases two hares at once catches none. — French Proverbs

The determined ostrich hunter will surely meet one. — Moroccan Proverbs

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

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

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway? — Will Rogers

The fox will catch you with cunning, and the wolf with courage. — Albanian Proverbs

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The forest provides food to the hunter after they are exhaustingly tired. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness. — Andrew Vachss

He who chases two rabbits at once will catch none. — German proverbs

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand? — Sayings

Short Hunt Quotes

  • People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. — Otto von Bismarck
  • Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams
  • They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers. — Samuel de Champlain
  • He who runs with wolves will learn to howl. — Mexican Proverbs
  • There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
  • Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf
  • There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
  • Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. — Desi Arnaz
  • You cannot hunt with a tied dog. — Albanian Proverbs
  • A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets — Nash Buckingham

Hunt Image Quotes

Hunt quote Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

Treasure Hunt Quotes

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour. — John Buchan

My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. — Sayings

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt. — Richard Paul Evans

Hunt quote Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.

My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris. — Stephanie Seymour

It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another. — Aaron Brookner

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know. — Will Wright

In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it. — Hilarie Burton

If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan with me, I just order it from Amazon when I come home. There's no treasure-hunting anymore. It used to be like a hunt to find Air Jordans, Max 95s, and carrying them back. — Hiroshi Fujiwara

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways. — Michael Longley

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. — Tahir Shah

Witch Hunt Quotes

The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. — Mae West

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. — Michael Scott

It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch. — Jon Stewart

Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet? — Calvin Cheng

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil. — Arthur Miller

Will Hunting Quotes

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. — Sitting Bull

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns. — Rick Danko

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

Who hunts two hares will catch neither — Greek Proverbs

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. — Hiram Powers

If you search you will find. — Mexican Proverbs

Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings. — Tuvia Bielski

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. — George Matthew Adams

Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

Hunting And Fishing Quotes

'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 go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.' — Robert Ruark

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. — Steve Albini

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. — Louis Bacon

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. — Douglass North

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters. — Archibald Rutledge

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

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. — DeForest Kelley

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Deer Hunting Quotes

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. — George Strait

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. — W. S. Gilbert

I was traveling down the road with a buddy and there's a guy driving around in a jeep with a dead deer strapped to the hood. My buddy says to me you think he's been hunting? Nope, They're probably giving them away with the purchase of every jeep. Here's your sign! — Bill Engvall

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains. — Takeda Nobushige

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life — Fred Bear

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom. — Chief Joseph

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. — Fred Bear

President Bush said he didn't want to renew the Assault Weapons Ban because it might 'infringe on hunters' rights'. Who needs an AK-47 machine gun to go hunting? Let me tell you guys something... If it takes you 500 rounds to bring down a deer, I don't want you going to the bathroom in MY house! — Elayne Boosler

I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy. — Larry the Cable Guy

But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Duck Hunting Quotes

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, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. — Dianne Feinstein

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan. — Vijay Kedia

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways. — Jase Robertson

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting. — Massad Ayoob

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be. — Fred Bear

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. — Ken Follett

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit. — Jase Robertson

I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat. — John Cage

[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven! — Mike Huckabee

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often. — Theodore Roosevelt

Fox Hunting Quotes

We have used a combination of measures to take out tigers, swat flies and hunt down foxes, punishing corrupt officials of all types. — Xi Jinping

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. — Wallis Simpson

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting). — Princess Diana

Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War. — Eddie Izzard

The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting. — Paul Johnson

I decline to go fox hunting. — Princess Diana

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England. — Rita Mae Brown

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. — Henry David Thoreau

Good Will Hunting Quotes

In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day. — Lawrence Bender

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it. — May-Britt Moser

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire. — Russell Brand

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable. — Robin Williams

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical. — Chris Martin

Don't know much, but I know I love you. — Linda Ronstadt

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it. — Gus Van Sant

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand. — Gus Van Sant

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting — Matt Damon

But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen. — Henry David Thoreau

Hunting Dog Quotes

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

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog. — Charles Spurgeon

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

You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. — Christian Bale

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. — Wayne Pacelle

Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire. — Tran Thien Khiem

A hungry dog hunts best. — Lee Trevino

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic." — Jose Ortega y Gasset

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. — Norman Ralph Augustine

A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing. — William Blake

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More Hunt Quotes

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man. — Al Capone

Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. — Leonard Ravenhill

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

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

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 do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home. — Ronald Reagan

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. — Albert Schweitzer

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is. — Tom Regan

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. — Lloyd Bridges

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children. — Harry Belafonte

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die. — Claude McKay

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides. — John Muir

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it — Alfred Whitney Griswold

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. — Jimmy Buffett

If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you’ll understand what a bad man’s reputation is built on. I’ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of — Doc Holliday

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color. — Rumi

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. — John Philip Sousa

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison. — Rosie O'Donnell

I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I've never done anything but respect Mark Hunt. — Dana White

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. — Georg Solti

In Conclusion

Hunt quotes also symbolize the search for knowledge, truth, and personal growth. They highlight the importance of perseverance, strategy, and focus in achieving one's goals. These quotes inspire us to face challenges head-on, tackle obstacles with determination, and embrace the journey rather than just the end result. They encourage us to explore new territories, both literally and metaphorically, and to learn from our experiences along the way.

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