Havilah Babcock famous quotes

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.
-- Havilah Babcock

#Smart #Golf #Men

Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside.
-- Havilah Babcock

#Lasts #Firsts #Casts

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

#Dog #Lying #Home

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.
-- Havilah Babcock

#Men #Fishing #There Comes A Time

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

#Dog #Bird #Hunters

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.