| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Hunting |
| | | Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. Addison. | 1 |
| | Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, |
| A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. |
Pope. | 2 |
| It is very strange and very melancholy that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us to call hunting one of them. Dr. Johnson. | 3 |
| A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. Frederick the Great. | 4 |
| Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals. Bovee. | 5 |
| | Poor Jack,—no matter who,—for when I blame |
| I pity, and must therefore sink the name,— |
| Liv’d in his saddle, lov’d the chase, the course, |
| And always ere he mounted, kiss’d his horse. |
Cowper. | 6 |
| | The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, |
| Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. |
| The jocund thunder wakes the enliven’d hounds, |
| They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds. |
Gay. | 7 | | |
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