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Havilah Babcock Quotes

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

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

Havilah Babcock
Smart, Golf, Men
Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

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

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
Havilah Babcock (1985). “My Health Is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.295, Univ of South Carolina Press

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

Havilah Babcock
Lasts, Firsts, Casts

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