Havilah Babcock quotes
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“It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.”
-- Havilah BabcockSource : Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside.”
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“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.”
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“There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.”
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“The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost as hard-and it takes almost as good a hunter-to keep a dog good as to make one as good. Eternal vigilance is the price of a good bird dog, regardless of who you are, or where and how virtuously you live.”
-- Havilah Babcock
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“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
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“God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.”
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“Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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