Louis L'Amour Quotes
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Louis L'Amour Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.
and you miss all you are traveling for.
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.
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.
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
The whole town was like that. Probably there weren't three men in town who had not used guns, and used them a lot.
Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.
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.
Hitting his enormous body was useless. I might as well have pounded a huge leather sack filled with wheat. So
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.
The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
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.
I learned then that many a victory is easier won with words than a sword - and the results are better.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
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.
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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.
Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight ... fight. Talk about it after.
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.
You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.