Patrick F. McManus Quotes

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Hardship on a modern camping trip is blowing a fuse on your electric underwear, or having the battery peter out on your Porta-Shaver.

Patrick F. McManus
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.

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Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

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Eventually I grew up, a fact that surprised many of our neighbors, some of whom lost good money betting against that likelihood.

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I am no more incompetent or susceptible to trouble than the average person, no matter what my friends might say.

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It's been a long, hard day, and bit by bit you have been transformed into a single, vertical, barely ambulatory ache. All that awaits you now is another long, lonely night on the hard, cold ground. "What am I doing out here?" you ask yourself.

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No greater bond exists between two male friends than shared ignorance.

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City planners have shown beyond doubt that old orchards, meadows, and pine woods, which once threatened the outskirts of many of our towns and cities, can be successfully eradicated by constructing a housing development on top of them.

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The other morning I was staring vacantly out the window, a hobby I personally find more entertaining than, say, stamp collecting or golf.

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Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

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Most mountain men died off back in the nineteenth century, once again displaying their uncommon good sense.

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Once in a seventh-grade English class I stumbled into a nest of dangling participles.

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Every so often I read an article on how to survive when lost in the wilds, and I have to laugh. The experts who write these pieces know everything about survival but next to nothing about getting lost. I am an expert on getting lost.

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If a kid accidentally triggers an old man, he is liable to get his vocabulary peppered with colorful expressions that will send his mother into shock the first time one tumbles off his tender lips.

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It was against his principle, he only had one, to ever be caught more than an hour's distance away from a food supply.

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It is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible.

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Housing developments are a great boon to camping, since they make such fine places to get away from.

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Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

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The know-it-all is now listed as a threatened species. I myself have threatened a large number of them and, on occasion, have even endangered a few.

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