Here's one of mine:

"Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: that if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers- then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could recapture the day....."

Ruark, Use Enough Gun, page 85.

How about yours?

Here I actually thought you meant Bible verses?

Try John 3:16 or Rom 8;28

I agree with Terry and would add - Genesis 1:1
That is a great place to start.

Check out this audio bible site. If anyone wants to look these up.
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/

Psalm 23 The Lord is my Shepard, I have all that I need. He lets me rest in green meadows, he leads me beside peaceful streams. He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths and brings honor to his name. Even when I walk through the Darkest Valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me.

1 JOHN 4:4

Now let's see, try Genesis 1:26, 28.

my favorite:

Vapodog 2;18,8
Thou preparest a Mauser for thine sport and a 747 as thy charriot for curved horn bovines await thee to the South and East.

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Originally posted by vapodog:
my favorite:

Vapodog 2;18,8
Thou preparest a Mauser for thine sport and a 747 as thy charriot for curved horn bovines await thee to the South and East.

"Render onto Cesar that which is Cesar's and render onto God, that which is God's.

Navy/USMC translation often quoted by me during NJP(non-juducial punishment/Captain's Mast): Your soul belongs to God, but your ASS belongs to the Navy...and ME! jorge

All was dark and he said let it be light but when ha saw what Adam and Eve was doing in 50 different ways he turned the lightswuch of

OK guys, I "see the light", how shall I re-name this thread.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Matthew 7:14

basically says 'tough shit'...Shakari will know who says that one often!!!

- I've never heard him quote from the bible though!

The Gospel according to Saint Ruark!

Rich Elliott

Properly renamed thread!!!

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Here's one of mine:

"Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: that if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers- then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could recapture the day....."

Ruark, Use Enough Gun, page 85.

How about yours?

Whimp!

"I have always wondered what his reaction might have been had I leaned over and confided that, for me, his hairy-chested, smell-like-leather bwana, thees was feerst one, too."

P. H. Capstick, Death in the Long Grass, Chapter 2, page 61

oh bwana, tembo doumi mkubwa asana kapisa

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Originally posted by Rusty:
"I have always wondered what his reaction might have been had I leaned over and confided that, for me, his hairy-chested, smell-like-leather bwana, thees was feerst one, too."

Ruark, Death in the Long Grass, Chapter 2, page 61

I like the quote but aren't we mixing our Ruarks and Capsticks here?

This ain't a Ruark-ism, but its one of my favorite Somebody-ism's: (Scruffy, you know the originator, dont you?)

"Fair Chase is having to shoot your way out of that which you shot your way into."

Cheers,
Canuck

One of my favorite "Ruarkisms" taken from, what else, but: "On Hunting Big Game, Use Enough Gun", page 96: "Lions and leopards and rhinos excite me but don't frighten me. But that buff is so big and mean and ugly and hard to stop, and vindictive and cruel and surly and ornery. He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you. I had looked at a couple of thousand of him by now, at close ranges, and I had killed one of him, and I was scareder than ever. He makes me sick in the stomach, and he makes my hands sweat, and he dries out my throat and my lips."

"Boy, you know you're getting old when you start saying, 'Things ain't like they used to be." But you're right every time. Because things ain't like they used to be.

Attributed to the Old Man. From the Old Man and the Boy.
As as we look about and wonder do we see the same world we used to Wonder About?
Frank

The buffalo looks upon you as if you ows him money.....

Those of us who have traveled to the far flung places and shared more than our bunks wiht uninvited guests, AKA parasites, bugs, and creepy crawly things may appreciate one more authors lament:



" I say, we are not alone in these clothes."

From:

A Conneticut Yankee in King Auther's Court."

Yes, another Twainism... sort of like a Yogism wihtout the mit.

Charles you are right! LOL! I have ammended my post

My favorite is the following:
"If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them."
From "Somethng Of Value."

"There is a bloody brave little animal in Africa called the honey badger. It may be the meanest animal in the world. It kills for malice and for sport, and it does not go for the jugular - it goes straight for the groin. It has a hell of a lot in common with the modern American woman."

-- Robert Ruark, The Honey Badger (1965)

Ann,

I liked the original title of the thread. I understood exactly what you attempted to convey...

That words of the great African hunters/writers are as gosple to the disciples of Africa.

For the literalists I find the entire Book of Job informative, as it is always nice to know what sort of God the neighbors are kowtowing to.

As for Ruarkisms, there are many but I like this one too:

"A man," the Old Man once said, "ain't no built-in hero in the woods or on the water. I don't care if he's got ten million dollars and six yachts. He ain't a hero to his dog if he shoots bad. And he ain't no hero to his friends if he hogs shots."

I like the one about all his friends being prostitutes, guides, PH's, taxidermist, and bartenders. I don't remember what book that was in.

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Originally posted by Rusty:
"I have always wondered what his reaction might have been had I leaned over and confided that, for me, his hairy-chested, smell-like-leather bwana, thees was feerst one, too."

P. H. Capstick, Death in the Long Grass, Chapter 2, page 61

Rusty, is this out of context? What's Capstick talking about here?

quote:

Originally posted by Rusty:
"I have always wondered what his reaction might have been had I leaned over and confided that, for me, his hairy-chested, smell-like-leather bwana, thees was feerst one, too."

P. H. Capstick, Death in the Long Grass, Chapter 2, page 61

Is this out of context? What's he talking about here?

quote:

Originally posted by Clifton Clowers:

quote:

Originally posted by Rusty:
"I have always wondered what his reaction might have been had I leaned over and confided that, for me, his hairy-chested, smell-like-leather bwana, thees was feerst one, too."

P. H. Capstick, Death in the Long Grass, Chapter 2, page 61

Is this out of context? What's he talking about here?

PHC is relaying his thoughts when his client took what was his client's first Elephant, and PHC's as well. The client was from Spain.

The prior line reads "Pedro, for mee ees feerst wahn!"

Note: I have no opinion on the accuracy of the story but I enjoyed Death in the Long Grass.

My Favorite "Ruarkism" is the title of one of the chapers in "The Old Man and The Boy".

"If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost"