Here lies Lester MoreFour shots from a 44No less no moreAnd in the same spirit;Here lies Chad LoveOn tombstones he did scoreSaid the wife nevermoreInto the pitHe did fitBy push or shove

"Never brag about your dog until AFTER the hunt!" - Gene Hill"Rain 'fore seven(AM), quit 'fore 'leven(AM)." - my Dad. Don't know where he got it, but it works, mostly. Told a school chum once and he laughed. It quit raining about 9:30AM. It started back about 9:45AM, but it did quit for a short while!But, then my Dad had a million of 'em:"Hotter that an $11 cook stove.""Longer than a $3 clothes line.""She's cuter than a speckled pup under a red wagon!""He's about three turns tighter than tree bark!""He'd climb a greased pole backwards to tell a lie rather than stand flat footed on the ground and tell the truth."The one I'll probably always remember was about a cross-eyed fella that ran a business in my home town, "He's so cross-eyed, when he cries, the tears run down the back of his head!"I know, I know, mine are mostly minutia, but they mean something to me!Bubba

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.I am haunted by waters.Norman Maclean

"we never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail if we neglect to do it"Sir Robert Baden Powell"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomarrow"RadmacherLove the posts keep up the good workJake

It's not about hunting or fishing, but you might need the reminder: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". This is either Biblical, by Bill Shakespeare, or Mark Twain...not real sure

Dough-nut give up a matchuntil the last shot is fired.dough-nut pull a gun over a fence, out of a boat or off a wagon, with the muzzle pointed toward you.dough-nut blame a gun or ammunition when poor shots are made."The Ideal is the flower garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully attended to." Mrs. Oliphant.

God does not subtract from mans allotted time those hours spent hunting or fishing.

"The worst day of fishin' is a whole hell of a lot better than the best day of school!" - Ian Borchard

I'm not sure who originated it, but the hunting quote most often directed at me is, "Dang. I think you missed."Sometimes, it's incorrectly stated as, "Dang. I think you missed. Again."

"No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler." - Izaak Walton

"The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner." - Arnold Gingrich

"The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able." - Sparse Grey Hackle

"The angler forgets most of the fish he catches, but he does not forget the streams and lakes in which they are caught." - Charles K. Fox

A life dedicated to "the chase". Miles will often be hard. Success & failure. Humility & elation. Pain & gratification. Yet, gazing over life's shoulder, each hunting mile was a happy mile.

"If it's brown, it's down."said by pretty much every deer hunter during the final week of the season.

Theodore Roosevelt"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.""I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."

Here's one of my favorites."In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."Charles A. Lindbergh

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.Ernest HemingwayIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?Herman Melville(My Personal Favorite)Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.Ernest Hemingway

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, one of my favorites:"To kill something as great as a duck just to smell the gunpowder is a crime against nature."- Alan Liere

By the way, JC: I LOVE that movie & that quote, hell yeah! If you watch it enough times, you start noticing the mistakes...and that's when you're a TRUE jaws fan.

"Give a man a fish and you've given him dinner; teach a man to fish and he'll be late for dinner." - unknown

"they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment to explain their frustrations."Barack Obama on rural Pennsylvania

"Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the FISH they are after." -Henry David Thoreau

“...one must have a good pair of legs. If automobiles, elevators, and general laziness have not ruined your powers of locomotion, you may follow the dogs; otherwise, you had best stay at home.”Saxton Pope from hunting with a bow and arrowC'mon what's not to like? this would be perfect.CheersSBW

How does that saying go? "Someday I hope to be the man that my dog thinks I am."

“Many of us are like the little boy we met trudging along a country road with a cat-rifle over his shoulder. 'What are you hunting, buddy?' we asked. 'Dunno, sir, I ain't seen it yet." Isn't this how it all starts?