My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew. — William Shakespeare
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. — Aristotle
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding
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
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds. — Norman Jewison
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. — Paul Rodriguez
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness. — Andrew Vachss
Short Hunting Dog Quotes
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. — Konrad Lorenz
Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend. — Corey Ford
Great men have great dogs. — Otto von Bismarck
The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. — Lord Byron
To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand? — Sayings
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. — Robert Benchley
The fox will catch you with cunning, and the wolf with courage. — Albanian Proverbs
The forest provides food to the hunter after they are exhaustingly tired. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain
Hunting Dog Image Quotes
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
Fox Hunting Quotes
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. — W. S. Gilbert
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
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
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
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. — Ken Follett
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting). — Princess Diana
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
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
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. — Elvis Presley
What a beautiful world it would be if people had hearts like dogs.
My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more. — Alan Jackson
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. — Philip K. Dick
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
and the night cold and the night long and the river
to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
and blackness ahead — Robert Hayden
If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it! — Nikita Khrushchev
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. — Austan Goolsbee
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. — Tom Robbins
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
A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets — Nash Buckingham
Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan. — Vijay Kedia
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
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
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
Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong? — Jeaniene Frost
Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them. — Valerius Geist
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season. — Hedy Lamarr
I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred temple with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or bad food. — Ted Nugent
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon. — Dan Quayle
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass. — Maurice Grimaud
Deer Hunting Quotes
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf
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
A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
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
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
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
Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right. — Fred Bear
Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog. — Charles Spurgeon
To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary. — Havilah Babcock
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
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master. — Thomas Hodgskin
Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion. — Anthony Trollope
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog. — Benjamin Franklin
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bill Clinton described himself as he's "the big dog." He's out hunting, and he found something. Some woman was emitting some, you know, come-to-me smell or whatever, and he was picking up on the scent. — Rush Limbaugh
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked. — Lao Tzu
Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world. — Ted Nugent
I love my hunting dog. I loved my hunting dog - I'm not very good at hunting. — Bonnie McFarlane
It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more. — Gene Hill
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that. — Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs. — Phil Gramm
You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. — Jeff Foxworthy
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd. — Henry David Thoreau
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
I really loved my dogs. Everyone laughs at me for it, but it's true. The time I spent with them, running, hunting, those were the happiest times of my life. They understood me. They were animals but they understood me far better than anyone in my family ever will. We shared something, we were the same. And they made me kill them. — Marie Phillips
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas! — Andy Albright
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others. — Ellen Glasgow
You try to leave and I will hunt you down." Relief poured through her, but she smacked at his thigh with the back of her brush. "Like a rabid dog? Very romantic. — Nalini Singh
As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Cressida notices and asks what lies that way. We admit, without acknowledging each other, it's our old hunting rendez-vous place. She wants to see it, even after we tell her it's nothing really. Nothing but a place where I was happy, I think. — Suzanne Collins
Twolegs are mousebrain — Erin Hunter
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. — Cormac McCarthy
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