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“The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind.” -Fred Bear
Hey all,
After looking at Joe's hunting pictures I went to add his quote to my collection. Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd. I have been collecting quotes and jotting down things that I've heard for years. I have always been fascinated with our Founding Fathers, like to the point I wanted a half sleeve tattooed from my ankle to my knee of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Jay, Hamilton, Madison (my favorite), the liberty bell, eagle, statute of liberty. Anyway thats where a lot of these came from, but there are quotes about life, hunting, humor, Rosie O'donnell, etc. Some of them reminded me of some of you. I have taken the liberty of adding a few of my favorite from the site. And the first Johnny Cash Quote is my life and the way I view the world, to a T. Enjoy...
“A patient man looks into a mirror, only to see the reflection of success.” -Joe Edge
“A Slow hit is better than a fast miss” -Travis T-bone Turner
“How many points do I need to get a Google buck tag?” -Stape
“Hunting is what you do, Grouse hunting is who you are.” Leopold as shared by Benhuntin
“DeRyder, you lied to me, DEER CANNOT READ SIGNS.” -Bckcntrybck
“You guys rock like like crack heads with blow torches” -me, talkin' about the Bowcast community. If this quote doesn't make a sense to you then you have probably lead an honest life and not getting it is for the better!
“I got a washing machine and a hunting dog, and a cap I ordered from the catalog
A good tall tree that shades the yard, a good fat sow for the winters lard
Let the thunder roll and the lighting flash, I’m doing alright for Country Trash
Well there’s not much new ground left to plow, and the crops need fertilizer now
My hands don’t earn me too much gold, For security when I grow old
But we’ll all be equal under the grass, And God’s got a heaven for Country Trash
God’s got a heaven for Country Trash, I’ll be doing alright for Country Trash”
-Cash, The Man in Black
“If you are not prepared to deal with reality, you can be sure that reality will deal with you.” -???
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again.”-William Faulkner, The Paris Review (Joeedge, this one is all you dude)
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” - Edward Abbey
“People used to play with toys, now the toys play with them” -Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys (This one reminds me of video games and children today)
"I have listened to impassioned accusations of anti-hunters who believe that hunting is synonymous with killing and that anyone who hunts is unfeeling and cruel. These people, at least, are not dishonest. They are sensitive people who feel the pain of others as if it were their own and a re moved to stop it. No they aren't dishonest. They are merely wrong-and I have standing to judge. I know where they could only guess, what hunting is, and I know that hunting is no more killing than the death of Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's play. I know, whereas they can only guess what my feelings are, and I know that I am neither unfeeling nor cruel. If they feel pain, I have felt the death. I have stood in the moment of the echo. They have not."
Peter Dunne-Before the Echo
"I do not hunt for the joy of killing but for the joy of living, and the inexpressible pleasure of mingling my life however briefly, with that of a wild creature that I respect, admire and value."
John Madson-Out Home
"The real archer when he goes afield enters a land of subtle delight. The dew glistens on the leaves, the thrush sings in the bush, the soft wind blows, and all nature welcomes him as she has the hunter since the world began. With the bow in his hand, his arrows softly rustling in the quiver, a horn at his back, and a hound at his heels, what more can a man want in life?"
Saxton Pope-Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
"What was big was not the antlers, but the chance. What was full was not the meatpole but the memory of the hunt."
Aldo Leopold
"Every moving thing beneath that liveth shall be meat for you."
Judeau Christian Bible- Genesis 9:3
"Now therefore I take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out and take me some venison."
Judeau Christian Bible- Genesis 27:3
"I prefer to hunt large animals with a bow and arrow rather than a rifle. With a bow in hand I know that I must get within forty yards of what I will shoot, and I must be willing to wait until I can take a clear shot at the vital killing area. I am aware that this handicaps me considerably over the hunter with a rifle, but I accept the challenge with relish."
James A . Swan-In Defense of Hunting
"I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether or not I got anything: it has to do with how the day was spent."
Fred Bear-Unknown Reference
"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 thobs. Lead On!"
Saxton Pope-Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” -Frederick Douglass, writer, former slave
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” -Martin Luthur king Jr, activist
“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed” - Marilyn Manson, antichrist superstar
“There's a reason the third world came in third.” -Jim Goad, redneck
“We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the _object_ of envy and resentment...We should cease to talk about vague and unreal _object_ives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better”
-George Keenan, Head of the U.S. State Department, Policy Planning Study 23, 1948
(This one always freaked me out, can't tell that this dude just got back from seeing some horrible stuff in WWII, huh?”)
“Damn it Feel good ta be a Gangsta”-The Geto Boys, Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
“Those who trumpet their own sorrows are usually most deserving of their agony.” -Oderus Urungus, GWAR
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation” -Oscar Wilde
“Good laws have their origins in bad morals” -Ambrosius Macrobius
“A jury consists of rwelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” -Robert Frost
“I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask them where their going and hook up with them later.”
-Mitch Hedburg
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by all violent and sudden usurpations.” -James Madison
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” -James Madison
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
-Benjamin Franklin...
“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.” -Fred Bear
“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
“We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -Thomas Jefferson
“If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.” -Fred Bear
“A downed animal is most certainly the _object_ of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.” -Fred Bear
(Aneal, use this line when people asked how you missed twice in Montana!)
“Be fit for more than you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. IF you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
-President James A. Garfield
“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.” -???
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a funtion og power and not of truth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.” -???
“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
“If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Only th police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.” -Edward Abbey
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon the court. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it does there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. -???
“If it turns out there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he is an underachiever.” -Woody Allen
“Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done” -George W. Bush 9/20/01
“Apparently, the terrorists believe that death will bring countless virgins and a closeness to God. We intend to help them realize that dream.” -Donald Rumsfield (I think)
“I am fat, and slow... because I have never ran from anything in my life” -ME
“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.” -???
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 that won't work.” -Thomas Alva Edison
“Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing”.-- George Lorimer
“no pressure, no diamonds” -???
"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace." (E. V. Cooke)
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." (Walt Disney)
"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless." -Robert H. Schuller
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." -George Burns
“Suppose one little old lady in ten carries a gun. Suppose that one in ten of those, if attacked by a mugger, succeeds in killing the mugger instead of being killed by him -- or shooting herself in the foot. On average, the mugger is much more likely to win the encounter than the little old lady. But -- also on average -- every hundred muggings produces one dead mugger. At those odds, mugging is an unprofitable business -- not many little old ladies carry enough money to justify one chance in a hundred of being killed getting it. The number of muggers declines drastically, not because they have all been killed but because they have, rationally, sought safer professions”. -David Friendman
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." -- Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 4/20/94
"As we have seen, the first public _expression_ of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of "self-defense." In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law." Martin Luther King, Jr.,
"If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying--that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976--establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime." Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, 97th Cong., 2d Sess.,
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party Mao Tse Tung
“Blaming guns for Columbine [school shooting] is like blaming scones for Rosie O'Donnell being fat. “ -???
‘‘[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.’’
— James Madison, Federalist, No. 46.
‘‘Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.’’
— Heinrich Himmler
‘‘The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non ["something essential" lit. "without which not"] for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police.’’
-- Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -- John F. Kennedy
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
“Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.” Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author, in the LA Times 15 Oct 1992
“You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. -Rush Limbaug
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his actions with his life.”
Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president" -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
"Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?"
(First Lady Hillary in her 2000 Senate campaign; "The Survivor," p. 382, by John Harris.)
"come on Bill, put your dick up. You can't **** her here."
(Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally; "Inside The White House," p. 243, by Ronald Kessler.)
“I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" -Seinfeld
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.” -Richard Bach
“There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them.” -Terry Pratchett
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” -Ernest Hemingway
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” -Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.” -Einstein
“ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” -Einstein
“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” -???
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
“He's so lazy that if there were work in bed, he would rather sleep on the floor.” - Paddy O'Dea
“I don't drink; it dulls the drugs. “ -???
"Kobe Bryant went on a sports talk show and said that he would like to be traded from the Lakers. A few hours later, he went on a different show and said that he does not want to be traded and wants to stay in L.A. Do I see a future in politics? He's an arrogant, pompous, self-centered, flip-flopper who has been accused of rape, and still has the highest selling jersey in the NBA...He should move to Massachusetts and change his name to Kennedy." - Rick Riley
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” -Drew Carey
I believe that there is only one proper role for government, and that is the protection of individual rights. I also believe that no government in history has ever limited itself to that role.
I believe that my neighbor has the right to worship God, Allah, Vishnu, Odin, the Great Pumpkin, or any other deity. I have the right to worship all of those gods, or none of them, and neither of us has the right to force our beliefs on the other. That includes trying to make me live by the tenets of your faith under the guise of "majority rights"--one man's pork dinner, bourbon, or steak is another man's abomination, sin, or blasphemy. Worry about your own standing with your deity, not mine.
I believe that a crime without a victim is no crime at all. If an action doesn't violate another's person or property, no crime has been committed.
I believe that thoughts can never be a crime, nor can they be an excuse for a more severe punishment. I believe that beating a person because you want their wallet is every bit as despicable as beating them because you don't like the color of their skin.
I believe that no group has rights beyond those of any of its individual members. There is no magic or alchemy that gives a mob special rights that trump the rights of the individual.
I believe that democracy and majority rule are not automatic mandates for anyone. Without a properly constrained government, fifty-one percent of the tribe can vote themselves the right to pee in the cornflakes of the other forty-nine percent. A tyranny of the majority is still a tyranny.
I believe that forced charity is no charity at all, and forced virtue cannot claim credit for itself anymore than a eunuch can claim credit for chastity.
I believe that it is not my right or obligation to raise and educate your children, nor is it your right or obligation to raise and educate mine.
I believe that it is none of my business what goes on in my neighbor's bedroom, nor is it any of his business what goes on in mine, as long as no one's right are violated. Bugger a goat for all I care, as long as it is above the age of consent.
I believe that you cannot have a right to anything that necessitates a financial obligation on the part of someone else. You have a right to life, liberty, and honestly acquired property, not to any sort of monetary or material thing. The former merely requires your fellow citizens to leave you alone; the latter requires them to work for you free of charge.
I believe that it is the height of ignorance to judge an individual not by their actions, but by their ancestry, gender, nationality, religion, dietary preferences, or the melanin content of their skin.
I believe that emotions are not substitutes for facts when it comes to describing and understanding reality. Wishing something to be something other than what it is won't make it so, no matter how many people wish for it.
I believe that the most effective way to ruin something is to put the government in charge of it. I also believe that the most effective way to corrupt a religion is to mix it with government.
I believe that the desire to become President should automatically be a disqualifying factor.
I believe that anyone in favor of "free" government services has no understanding of economics.
I believe that patriotism isn't measured by flags or bumper stickers, but by your willingness to defend the rights of someone with whom you disagree completely and profoundly.
I believe that freedom of speech especially extends to unpopular or repulsive speech. Popular and uncontroversial speech does not need protection; dissent does.
I believe that the IQ of a crowd is the IQ of its least intelligent member, divided by half. I do not believe in the wisdom of the masses--intelligence is not an additive quality, but force is, and the threat or application of force is the only tool available to any crowd.
I believe that I am the only person qualified to run my life, that I have the absolute right to be my own master, and that no amount of laws and Constitutions ever written can grant me that right or take it away.
(I don't remember where these 'I Believe' lines came from but I sure do like them)
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic." -???
“The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.” -Eugen McCarthy
“Never mistake motion for action.” - Hemingway
“An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodiles, hoping it will eat him last.” Churchill
"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." -???
"A particular virtue of wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact." -Aldo Leupold
And since we opened with him, we'll close that way too...
“If asked to sketch a mental picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. Inwardly they seem to have in common a love for the outdoors, a reverence for wildlife, and a close tie with history. There is nothing they seem to enjoy more than telling tall tales around a campfire or talking about archery to others. It would be difficult to find a more interesting group of people.” -Fred Bear
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