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difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

Pa had found it and brought gold from it, and pa must have come

You stick with him, no matter what. It's all he'll ever have, what you can give him.

This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

That was where he came from,

And where, in my time, would my body lie?

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

I think of myself ... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Staring out at the sunlit street. It was a whole lot simpler out

Only the innocent speak of adventure, for adventure is only a romantic name for trouble ...

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

From a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.

Such are the amenities of social life, which oft makes a liar of the best of men.

If at any time your Prince should pretend your position with him is sure, begin from that moment to feel unsure.

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. - Louis L'Amour

for what man does not love that which he himself has built?

The whole town was like that. Probably there weren't three men in town who had not used guns, and used them a lot.

Several other men played

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood ...

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

Don't go for that gun," I said quietly. "I want you tried in a court of law, not dead on this floor.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

Hitting his enormous body was useless. I might as well have pounded a huge leather sack filled with wheat. So

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants ...

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.

Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

Not even a marshrat will trust itself to one hole only, so always have an escape route, and more than one, if it can be.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

I learned then that many a victory is easier won with words than a sword - and the results are better.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

about him, although not many

Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive.

A journey is time suspended.

Ma'am," I said, "I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.

I have only strength and ingenuity, and neither trade nor land.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

in a mighty hurry - both of 'em.

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead ...

What a woman she is! Why, she'd make two of me!

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

They know that when a man holds a gun he more

The trouble with being on the wrong side of the law was the kind of company you had to keep.

A move well planned is a move half-done, and I tried to think through every phase. We

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

In Bowdrie's limited vocabulary, to be responsible was the most important word.

I don't have anybody available to send up there to help you out. We're kind of up to our elbows in enemy sympathizers right now in Los Angeles.

From Caprock Rancher:
Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight ... fight. Talk about it after.

Bats and birds taken from those mountains

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His

You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said.

Kept him from going forward. His innate caution

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

When the raw, harsh liquor had cut the dust from his throat he looked up at a nearby

The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been.

My father had lived through wars and troubles, and it left him with a sense that nothing lasted but what a man made of himself.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

A good beginning makes a good end.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant

Who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship.

Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them.

My future is one I must make myself.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.