John Hillaby Quotes

#1. In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is a todo madre, something which is 'wholly mother'.

John Hillaby

#2. Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

John Hillaby

#3. The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

John Hillaby

#4. Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

John Hillaby

#5. Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get as much as they can out of the ground, and what can you expect? The wine has no taste.

John Hillaby

#6. Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

John Hillaby

#7. There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

John Hillaby