Noteable Quotes!

[Troy Breeding]

#5358

Heard this one several years ago while sitting around the camp fire with friends talking about the most lethial wounds.

:Quote:

To kill a lion the hole needs not be as big as a church door, but deep like a well with the waters of life flowing at both ends.

I think about this at times when I hear someone say the wider the broadhead the bigger the hole.:D

Troy

[Ed Ashby]

#39917

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself”. – Potter Stewart, SCOTUS, 1958-1981:D

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#39952

“Honoring tradition does not mean ignoring evolution. For without the latter, the former is merely flimsy nostalgia.”

[Ed Ashby]

#39984

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” – W. C. Fields

“The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind.” – Fred Bear

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” – Mark Twain

[David Petersen]

#39994

Onward, through the fog … R. Crumb

[Ed Ashby]

#40059

“Even when shot bare-shaft, EFOC/UEFOC arrows fully recover from paradox at less than one yard. Think of the times you’ve had a shot opportunity, but only if you could thread your arrow through a very narrow opening in brush that was close to you. Using such an arrow makes that shot possible.” – Troy Breeding, at the K’Zoo Seminar (paraphrased) 😯

Ed

[Troy Breeding]

#40152

“If only they would stand and fight”

George A. Custer (not the brightest quote he ever made)

[SteveMcD]

#40219

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook”.

“We all live in a glass house”.

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am part of mankind”.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”.

Henry David Thoreau

And of course, my closing below –

[Jason Wesbrock]

#40264

Steve,

I love those quotes, especially Thoreau. I can think of no finer reading when I’m up at our Wisconsin property than Walden and Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac.”

[SteveMcD]

#40290

J.Wesbrock wrote: Steve,

I love those quotes, especially Thoreau. I can think of no finer reading when I’m up at our Wisconsin property than Walden and Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac.”

Jason, I don’t think, I could think of any finer either! That being, the approprate time and place for reading those two great Classics.

Enjoy! 8)

[Patrick]

#40299

“Huh?”

-Patrick

[David Petersen]

#40347

Patrick — I think what Steve meant to say, is “I don’t think, thus I am not.” 😛

[Fallguy]

#40399

” No man lies on his death bed wishing he had spent more time at work”

” An honest politician has nothing to fear from a law abiding gun owner”

[SteveMcD]

#40841

Indeed. The Art of Being Wise — Is knowing what to overlook! 8)

[Raymond Coffman]

#40901

“The Sword IS the Mind — When the Sword is right, the Mind is right”

Can be applied to a number of things including archery — { substitute “bow” for sword } —

Scout

[Patrick]

#40983

David Petersen wrote: Patrick — I think what Steve meant to say, is “I don’t think, thus I am not.” 😛

😆 Not thinking is one of my favorite activities.

I have a bunch of favorite quotes:

“They that can give up essential liberty to to a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”

-Benjamin Franklin

“There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people that ask questions.”

-Chris Berman

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

-Aristotle

[Troy Breeding]

#41224

[L82HUNT]

#41274

“He who doesn’t fall, doesn’t stand up” Fedor Emelianenko

[paleoman]

#41284

How about this – “I can fart better than I can sing”. My dear departed grandmother. Sorry but I had to:wink:.

[Ed Ashby]

#41290

“Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.” – W.C. Fields

“Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning.” – Bob Hope

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#41317

“…it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds…”

– Samuel Adams

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#41319

“We think of hunting and fishing as escape, and they are. They are escape from a society of escapism: from pervasive complacency, from media pitched to the lowest common denominator, from trivialization of thought, from the politics of blandness, from gladiators, celebrities, entertainment, scandals, the life synthetic…”

– Datus Proper

[Ed Ashby]

#41343

[Ed Ashby]

#41510

“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.” ? John Wayne

“I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.” – Sean Connery

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” – Errol Flynn

[Jason Wesbrock]

#41554

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” – Aldo Leopold

[Ed Ashby]

#41562

“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don’t learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.” – R. Lee Ermey

“I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” – Chuck Norris

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” ? John Wayne

[JodyS]

#41689

“You do not have a soul, you are a soul, you have a body.” CS Lewis

“You will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“A lot of water under the bridge, a lot of other stuff too.” Bob Dylan

Jody

[Ed Ashby]

#41699

“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. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.” ? Robert Ruark

[WICanner]

#41758

“The only persons behavior you can control is your own. Choose your friends wisely.”

Used to tell that one to my teenagers long ago.

[Mark Turton]

#41919

Give a man a fish and he will eat today, teach him to fish and he will eat tomorrow.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a wise man so teach him.

Every day above the sod is a good day.

Friendship can only be measured in its passing.

[Ed Ashby]

#42273

“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 any longer.” ? Robert Ruark

[Backcountry Joe]

#42315

Quickly now everyone back to your cubicles, we need to start thinking outside of the box!

[Ed Ashby]

#42358

Backcountry Joe wrote: Quickly now everyone back to your cubicles, we need to start thinking outside of the box!

😆 Love it!

Ed

[Troy Breeding]

#42539

[snafu72]

#46617

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets

angry, he’ll be a mile away-and barefoot.

Have you ever tried to eat a live pig….it can get exhausting.

Life feeds on Life. That carrot you eat was once alive and growing.

[Stephen Graf]

#46705

Troy Breeding wrote: Heard this one several years ago while sitting around the camp fire with friends talking about the most lethial wounds.

:Quote:

To kill a lion the hole needs not be as big as a church door, but deep like a well with the waters of life flowing at both ends….

I believe that’s a nock off of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet when montigue (sp) gets stuck with a sword…

“If you see the buddha, kill him” – zen saying

[Raymond Coffman]

#46734

Steve –

I also thought the line familiar —-

” Its not as deep as a well or as wide as a church door, but is enough “

Mercutio – Act 3 Scene 1 Pg 5 — Romeo & Juliet

[Troy Breeding]

#46769

Never knew that. The fellow that made the statement was a Minister and I thought it had something to do with his preching.

Troy

[Jason Wesbrock]

#46947

“The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, but He is no longer the only one to do so. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: he could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: he could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.”

-Aldo Leopold

[kingwouldbe]

#46978

Ricky Bobby: Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said…”I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.” 8)

[Thornbush Archery]

#47018

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

C.S. Lewis quotes

Reminds me to focus on the important things in life.

[Ed Ashby]

#47076

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

[Fletcher]

#47156

“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” Card on my Grandfather’s shop wall.

“Give a man to fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will come home smelling of strong drink and the truth shall not be in him.”:D

[Ed Ashby]

#47164

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. – Andy Rooney

[David Petersen]

#47185

Ed — Now that is a great quote! Sad but true. 😕

Here’s one, anon: “Measure twice, cut once.”

[Ed Ashby]

#47189

“I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.” – Johnny Carson

[Jason Wesbrock]

#47227

Thornbush Archery wrote: “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

C.S. Lewis quotes

Reminds me to focus on the important things in life.

I really like that one. Thanks for sharing it.

[Ed Ashby]

#47317

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

[Ralph]

#47343

“Boss, I cut it off twice and it’s still too short”.

[jmsmithy]

#47358

“…This is it…it’s the big one…I’m comin’ Weezy…”

F. Sanford

😆

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#47366

jmsmithy wrote: “…This is it…it’s the big one…I’m comin’ Weezy…”

F. Sanford

😆

Bahaa….nice.

Another favorite Fred G. quote – “Grady, you so ugly, I could roll your face in dough and make gorilla cookies.”

[Ralph]

#47376

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

[tailfeather]

#47393

This here’s a snakeskin jacket. And for me, it’s a symbol of my individuality and belief in personal freedom. -Sailor Ripley 😀

[Ed Ashby]

#47443

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. – Ronald Reagan

[bamboo]

#47844

“If you keep acting like a horses a$$ people stop thinking its an act!”

[Ed Ashby]

#48053

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius

[Raymond Coffman]

#48064

Hi Doc – I hope you are doing well –

and Dave will remember this — the Americanization of the above quote

“Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss poor performance”

7P rule –haha

Scout

[paleoman]

#48094

“We create our miseries and symphonies. Eternity really doesn’t care. What else do we do, sit on a cloud and eat angel foodcake forever”? – a thought I had on why meaninglessness may be much more.

[paleoman]

#48100

BTW, I’m not saying up there that the quote carries any weight at all – just some 2 cent philosophy before my brain got sore:)

[Ed Ashby]

#48108

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you. — Unknown

[Backcountry Joe]

#58506

“Love you Daddy”

Makenzie my 9 year old daughter stump shooting yesterday afternoon.

[pewanogo]

#58542

Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?

BLACK ELK

[Wexbow]

#58893

“Sure isn’t it great to be alive and so many dead” my Uncle Billy (needs to be recited in a genuine Irish accent!)

[Ed Ashby]

#59027

And my all time favorite …

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”- Theodore Roosevelt ; “Citizenship in a Republic,”

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#59055

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”

– G. K. Chesterton

“Nation, those of us who don’t believe in science are under attack by forces we don’t understand.”

– Steven Colbert

[William Warren]

#59640

“When your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see all problems as nails” -Abraham Maslow-

I beleive Dave had this one in his tag line. One of my favs.

[bruc]

#60126

” You can’t burn the candle from both ends ” It was one of my mother’s favorite lines that referred to, late nights and carousing, during my teenage years.

Bruce

[Ed Ashby]

#60257

“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 any longer.” ? Robert Ruark

[Raymond Coffman]

#60264

Doc —

I more true quote than I like to admit — sure went fast

Scout

[Shane Balow]

#60398

“Only after last the tree’s cut and the last river poisoned, only after the last fish is caught will you find that money cannot be eaten”

[Ed Ashby]

#61653

Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation. – Edward R. Murrow

[Ralph]

#61789

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet”. Roger Miller

[William Warren]

#61929

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing….

Helen Keller

[Ed Ashby]

#62031

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

[T Downing]

#62846

God was with the boy as he grew up, he lived in the wilderness and became an Archer. Gen 21:20

Another one. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

John Wooden

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

[Fallguy]

#62976

Alcohol never solved anything, but then neither does milk. JOHN WAYNE😀

[Ed Ashby]

#8197

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. – Elbert Hubbard

[Reg Darling]

#8667

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow’s reality. -Edward Abbey

[Reg Darling]

#8671

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness. -Edward Abbey

[Ed Ashby]

#9283

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill

[Mark Turton]

#9293

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.

Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#9324

“For what it’s worth, a wilderness area should be handled as follows:

First, remove the “sanitary facilities,” also known as outhouses, plow up the roads and parking lots, re-seed the trails, and otherwise vacate the interior. Then build a dirt parking lot at the area boundary and erect the following sign:

Howling wilderness beyond this point

CAUTION

Bad weather

Rough terrain

Bears that act funny

No rescue facilities available

Enter at your own risk

Have a nice day”

– John Geirach

[Troy Breeding]

#9373

[Hiram]

#10977

http://youtu.be/f7nqxIdROsI

Hatchet Jack

[Mark Turton]

#19480

“If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years.”

Capt Jack Churchill

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

[Backcountry Joe]

#20896

A good story never starts with “So there I was, eating a salad”

[pewanogo]

#21032

Nothing in Nature is ever wasted. Pewanogo

[Wexbow]

#21438

That last one reminds me of another favourite of mine:

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished – Lao Tzu

A lot like trad archery really!

[Crookedstick]

#22505

Can’t make silk purse out of sow’s ear, but silk stocking sure look good on calf.–Chinese fortune cookie and possibly my epitaph

[campcomfort]

#23837

the choices you make today are the memories you live with tomorrow

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#13859

“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.”

– Philip Caputo

[William Warren]

#14211

A movie quote but I like it.

“William, your heart is free, have the courage to follow it”

William’s father, Malcolm, says this to him in a dream.

[William Warren]

#14222

Here’s another one I like.

“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.” ~Wayne Dyer~

So if you want to stand out in whatever you do, there it is, right there, go the extra mile.

[James Harvey]

#14535

“Don’t get caught up in the idea of state of the art gear. We’re looking for the kind of guy that can kick down a door with nothing but a pair of dick stickers and a 9mm and kill everyone in the room.” – A high ranking member of the Australian SASR.

An attitude I try to take to everything I do. It’s about the man, not the kit he carries.

[paleoman]

#14780

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road”. Stephen Hawking.

[grumpy]

#16025

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. John Lennon

There are only two things in the universe that are infinate. The universe, and mans stupidy, and I’m not sure about the first. Einstein. Thus my ability to be right is severly limited, and my ability to be wrong infinate.

And my favorite: Would you believe me if I said I was being followed by a Yellow Submarine? Ringo

[archer38]

#16148

“Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out into the field and hunt game for me.”

Genesis 27:3

[grumpy]

#20759

Forgot a few…

“Don’t go upstairs empty handed.” Mom

“You’re smart. You can do anything if you want to bsd enough.” Dad. Good thing I didn’t want to play basketball.

My mom used to say that candle one all of the time.:roll: Been trying to prove her wrong for 50 years. Hey! I’m still alive, and what dosn’t kill me makes me stronger, right. Work might go a bit easier if I sent Audrey home when Arwen went to bed, but it might get embarassing. Like when she beats the crap out of me, and drags me off to bed.:D

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#27715

“When hunters seek easier ways, focusing only on results and skipping the process (or, as Theodore Roosevelt put it, those who are “content to buy what they have not the skill to get by their own exertions”), they fail to gain the intimacy, knowledge, appreciation and respect for the prey, for the habitat, and for other wildlife that is gained through arduous pursuit. The connections are shattered. I suspect this growing disconnect is, in large part, why some hunters are either apathetic or outright opposed to policies that protect and enhance wildlife and wild places; they either ignore or never really came to understand our hunting and wildlife heritage.”

– Dave Stalling

[David Coulter]

#28156

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.” Tom Waits.

That said, I like the accordion. dwc

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#28172

dwcphoto wrote:

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.” Tom Waits.

That gave me my first good laugh of the morning. 😀

[David Coulter]

#28173

Waits helps me smile at misery better than anyone. John Prine is right up there, too. thanks, dwc

[David Coulter]

#28182

Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx

I’ve been trying to remember that one all morning. dwc

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#28183

dwcphoto wrote: Waits helps me smile at misery better than anyone. John Prine is right up there, too. thanks, dwc

Agreed on both counts. Have you listened to the song that Prine did recently with Iris Dement called, “In Spite of Ourselves?” That song cracks me up every time.

[David Coulter]

#28188

In Spite of Ourselves is precious. I wish my wife and I would have danced to that at our wedding. Prine’s really terrific. Ever hear Dear Abby?” dwc

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#28196

dwcphoto wrote:

Ever hear Dear Abby?” dwc

Oh yeah – it’s a classic.

Here’s another one I like:

“I was brought up the best way that I could be brought up with what we had to do with. I could have had a better education, and I could have had better clothes to wear to school. I could have had a better chance, you know. But if I’d had the best education in the world, I might have not played music.”

– Bill Monroe

[David Petersen]

#28228

I got to see Prine at a small LA club (Troubadour) back in ’73. He came out with two bar stools and sat on one with a pitcher of beer on the other. I was in the front row by the stairs to the stage and when he came back after a break he was so drunk he stumbled on the bottom step and had to grab onto me to keep from falling. That’s my best and only Prine story. My favorite is “Illegal Smile.” I don’t know if he is a trad guy, however. 😆

[William Warren]

#28333

Dave,

Prine has been around long enough his work was originally on vinyl. Maybe that makes him sort of “Trad”. The wife is a fan and has a couple of his vintage LP’s. Now I’m gonna have to dust off the turntable.

[wahoo]

#29070

It’s only God when he’s drunk – Tom Waits

[Ralph]

#33615

“When a man is at the racetrack he roars longer and louder over the twenty-five cents he loses through the hole in the bottom of his pocket than he does over the $25 he loses through the hole in the top of his pocket”. -William Barclay Masterson (Bat Masterson)

[David Coulter]

#33930

That’s a sad story of Prine, Dave. Illegal Smile is another great one song. Sometimes it’s better to only know the music and not so much of the musician. I’ve had that with paintings I enjoyed until I met the artist. dwc

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#33987

[Mark Turton]

#43294

King Harold’s last words to his son ‘watch what you are doing with that thing you’ll have somebody’s eye out’

[Col Mike]

#44009

“When the last tree is cut, when the last fish is eaten, when the last stream is poisoned, you will find out that you can’t eat money” Cree prophecy.

[Ralph]

#44742

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” – The Shootist (1976)

“Well, son, since you haven’t learned to respect your elders, it’s time you learned to respect your betters.” – Big Jake (1971)

Can ya tell I been watchin’ John Wayne? 😆

He’s just pretty darn traditional I think.

“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude.” – Rio Bravo (1959)

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#51527

Simple, but sage advice.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#34050

“If one wants to be a consistently successful bowhunter developing shooting skills is very important but developing hunting skills is essential.”

– Dr. Ed Ashby

[David Petersen]

#34061

DWC and Duncan– I should have added that even when drunk, Prine never missed a beat and if anything, he was even better (because more relaxed?). In that place and time and situation, a merely beer-high performer was a relative saint, considering that most were down the tubes on smack or coke. While I’ve never cared for his hairdo, Prine remains a personal favorite musical philosopher, and about as “traditional” as a longtime celebrity musician can be. It’s a hard life, I hear.

[jpcarlson]

#34117

I think it went something like “It is better to remain silent at times and have men wonder if you are a fool, then to open your mouth and extinguish any doubt”. Abraham Lincoln

J

[David Coulter]

#34186

Dave,

I’m not sure I’d recognize Prine if he was sitting next to me. Sometimes that’s a good thing when you like an artist’s work. He’s a great story teller and I like his sense of humor. Dear Abby is a great one, full of fun with a point. Prine’s stories pass my personal most important test, they’re believable.

I just looked up Inspite of Ourselves, Prine’s duet with Iris DeMent on the tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8 , and yes, he’s got some hairdo!

All the best. dwc

ps. keep us posted on your next work. peace, dwc

[David Petersen]

#34850

Thanks for the link, David. A great way to start the day. And a perfect duo, as Iris in many ways is the female John Prine.

😀

[David Coulter]

#35149

She’s got better hair…. dwc

[James Harvey]

#50447

Winston Churchill wrote: (President Roosevelt) sought to entice the nimble and wily fish. I tried for some time myself at other spots. No fish were caught, but he seemed to enjoy it very much, and was in great spirits for the rest of the day. Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.

Winston Churchill also wrote: The rhinoceros stood in the middle of this plain, about five hundred yards away, in jet-black silhouette; not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age…

[sinawalli]

#51185

“Do not pray for a easy life, pray for strength to endure a difficult one.” Bruce Lee

“Peace is that glorious moment in history when everyone is reloading”. Thomas Jefferson

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need”. Mick Jagger

[David Bartlett]

#51288

“If nobody died, we can fix this”. Author Unknown

[sinawalli]

#52182

“You’re up one minute, next you’re down, it’s a half inch of water and you think you’re going to drown”.

John Prine

[sinawalli]

#52217

“When you’re dead you don’t know that you’re dead. It’s only difficult for others.

It’s the same when you’re stupid”.

[critch]

#53049

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous…”

Father Thomas Merton

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#54264

“The center of a watermelon is exactly the same size as the center of an aspirin”

– Byron Ferguson

[James Harvey]

#54807

Bruce, I love that Ferguson quote!

Fancy cutting down those beautiful trees we saw this afternoon to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. Winston Churchill

(In case you can’t tell I’ve been reading a lot of Churchill lately 😉 )

[David Petersen]

#55771

Sinawalli — I love that quote! It’s downright uplifting. Who is the author?

Going way back, to David’s (dwcphoto) link to the John Prine-iris Dement video for “In Spite of Ourselves,” … I can’t help but to suggest that if a majority of Americans embraced the raw truths of Iris Dements’ “Living in the Wasteland of the Free,” we could recapture the American dream. But we won’t, as our individual and collective vision is far too narrow, tunneled-in.

I’m loving this thread on revisit, thank you all.

[sinawalli]

#55800

[quote=David Petersen]Sinawalli — I love that quote! It’s downright uplifting. Who is the author?

Not sure Dave! One if those things that is buried 10000 miles beneath my brain!

[Ralph]

#55864

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein.

[James Harvey]

#55882

David Petersen wrote: Sinawalli — I love that quote! It’s downright uplifting. Who is the author?

I’ve heard Ricky Gervais say it, but I don’t know if he was the first.

[garydavis]

#8290

I always liked “The more you know the less you need to carry”. I forget who Dave attributed it to.

[James Harvey]

#57326

Just read this cracker by Don Thomas in his rattling article in the latest (AS14) TBM:

Don Thomas wrote: I use the real thing for pretty much the same reason I shoot wooden arrows, which shouldn’t require further explanation.

He was talking about antlers, but I think that spirit applies to just about anything we might turn our hands to eh?

[jerrynhook]

#45302

Life’s too long to be unhappy.

~Jerry

[James Harvey]

#63678

Those who feel guilty contemplating “betraying” the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal – the “eternal” tradition introduced to them in their youth – is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

– Daniel Dennett

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#63745

That’s one heck of a quote, Jim. I’ll be pondering that one for a while…

[David Petersen]

#63803

Bruce, the best way to ponder Dennett is to read Dennett. PM if you want specifics.

Can we get more info on “Crowfoot”? Thanks …

It’s December, and the elk that didn’t come down as usual (until very recent years) for the rut, and didn’t even come down for the late rifle seasons, still have not come down. It keeps you guessing.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#63957

Thanks, Dave – I’ll do a little more digging into Dennett. Any particular titles you’d recommend?

Crowfoot was a chief of the Siksika Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy.

[critch]

#8433

Just because no one is complaining doesn’t mean all the parachutes worked.-Benny Hill

[Ralph]

#8450

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

-Crazy Horse-

[Col Mike]

#8484

We had a traditional American Thanksgiving. Invited all of our neighbors over and had a great feast. Then we killed them all and stole their land.

Jon Stewart

[Col Mike]

#9506

Bruce

If your really interested in Dennett have an extra copy of his “Breaking The Spell” if you want it send me your mailing address to home e-mail. Least I can do for someone who has turned me own to some great gear.:D Be warned Dennett is a very thoughtful writer on his subject.

[Col Mike]

#9532

On this site in 1897

Nothing happened.

-Plaque on wall of Woody Creek Tavern,

Woody Creek, Colorado

From the front page of Lawrence M. Krauss–A Universe From Nothing

[David Petersen]

#9533

Mike, I love your “beware of thoughtfulness” proviso! In this world, well, yeah …

[Col Mike]

#9542

Well it do scare some folks my friend:twisted:

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#9596

colmike wrote: Bruce

If your really interested in Dennett have an extra copy of his “Breaking The Spell” if you want it send me your mailing address to home e-mail. Least I can do for someone who has turned me own to some great gear.:D Be warned Dennett is a very thoughtful writer on his subject.

Thanks, Mike – will do!

And thanks for the warning – I generally steer clear of very thoughtful writers, but what the heck, I’ll give it a try…

[Rogue]

#10728

“There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.” Edward Abbey

“Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right, or the need to do so.”

Edward Abbey

Going through another Abbey stage.:lol:

[James Harvey]

#10800

Rogue wrote: “There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.” Edward Abbey

Until this came along 😉

[Rogue]

#10911

Jim I can’t even imagine what Abbey would say about the Segway. heck I’m not even sure they look human riding those things anymore.

[James Harvey]

#27819

“For if my mistress find me lying here

She will not ruth or gentle pity show,

But lay her boar-spear down, and with austere

Relentless fingers string the cornel bow,

And draw the feathered notch against her breast,

And loose the arched cord, ay, even now upon the quest”

Oscar Wilde

Charmides

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#55967

“The great primitive outer world is still unconquered, and there are impulses within the beast of man not yet measured, curbed and devitalized, which are the essential motives of life. Therefore without, without wantoness, and without cruelty, we shall hunt as long as the arm has strength, the eye glistens, and the heart throbs. Lead On!”

– Saxton Pope, “Hunting with the Bow and Arrow”

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#36800

“….Many archers think that if they hurry a shot they lose accuracy, and in some cases they are right, because to hurry a shot means to shoot an arrow faster than one’s normal rate of speed. However, it is just as easy to learn to shoot fast as it is to shoot slow. In fact, I believe it is possible to shoot more accurately by shooting quickly, once the archer becomes accustomed to it. There is less time to think, and the less thinking about how and why one shoots a bow, while he is actually shooting, the better. Too much thinking is bad for concentration on any given operation which one is trying to do, provided of course that the archer already knows what he is doing. A man does not worry about where he is going to place his feet when he walks or runs, yet he places them perfectly.”

– Howard Hill, “Hunting the Hard Way”

[Ralph]

#37021

I like that one Bruce. I agree.

Too bad it don’t work so well when I open my mouth or hit send. 😳

[grumpy]

#37949

Good one Bruce. If you practice enough the auto pilot gets loaded correctly, and there is no thought. The conscious thought is “Arrow There” then the auto pilot should take over. Malcolm Goodwell says that when athletes “clutch” they are thinking about what they are doing, rather than letting it happen.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#39548

[Brennan Herr]

#40027

Just finished The Temple Tiger by Jim Corbett

While hunting the Talla Des Man-Eater he is discussing the importance of experince with the animal you are hunting.

“Experience engenders confidence, and without these two very important assests the hunting of a man-eating tiger on foot, and alone, would be a very unpleasant way of committing suicide.”

His abilities astound. If you haven’t read any of his books give them a go.

[James Harvey]

#46013

brennanherr wrote: “Experience engenders confidence, and without these two very important assests the hunting of a man-eating tiger on foot, and alone, would be a very unpleasant way of committing suicide.”

Hahaha, what an absolute cracker! I agree that Corbett is a must read.

“We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity.“

-Charlie Chaplin

[John Mabry]

#32807

The line that got me interested in trying traditional archery again after 35 years of compound use:

“I looked down at the delicate bow in my hand and marveled once again that an animal of such size could be brought down by an instrument weighing little more than the fly rod that had provided the first dinner of the trip.” Longbows In the Far North – Don Thomas

I cannot help but recall that quote every time I head into the woods with my bow.

Also:

“…Bob and Mary’s young black Lab Sonny ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don’t give a dog a specific job, he’ll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There’s a lesson there.” At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman – John Gierach

Reminds me very much of my chocolate lab and best pal, Meadow, that I lost recently.

JM

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#33308

Both are quality quotes, John. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum.

[critch]

#39112

“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”

? Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

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