Louis L'amour Quotes

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do! — Louis L'Amour

Pa had found it and brought gold from it, and pa must have come — Louis L'Amour

No man is lost while he yet lives. — Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour

This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions. — Louis L'Amour

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

We sprung from thin soil, and raised more kin than crops, but we were proud folk... — Louis L'Amour

That was where he came from, — Louis L'Amour

It is better ... to fear a little. One is cautious then. — Louis L'Amour

And where, in my time, would my body lie? — Louis L'Amour

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. — Louis L'Amour

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

The call of the horizon finds quick response in the heart of every wanderer. — Louis L'Amour

From a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately — Louis L'Amour

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. — Louis L'Amour

Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it. — Louis L'Amour

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. — Louis L'Amour

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't! — Louis L'Amour

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. — Louis L'Amour

If you're going to have peace rather than violence, both sides have got to want it. One side alone can't make peace. — Louis L'Amour

Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way — Louis L'Amour

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody. — Louis L'Amour

for what man does not love that which he himself has built? — Louis L'Amour

Several other men played — Louis L'Amour

If you liked Louis L'Amour, you will really love Don Bendell. — Asa Baber

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. — Louis L'Amour

As the days went by, I began to see this girl I had married was even more than I had suspected and in every way. — Louis L'Amour

Trail dust is thicker'n blood ... — Louis L'Amour

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

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. — Louis L'Amour

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ... — Louis L'Amour

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

You can't fight the desert ... you have to ride with it. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. — Louis L'Amour

The neck shot is best," I commented, "if chance allows. If shot through the heart or lungs they will often run a mile or more before dropping. — Louis L'Amour

We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. — Louis L'Amour

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. — Louis L'Amour

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

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. — Louis L'Amour

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope. — Louis L'Amour

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing. — Louis L'Amour

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined. — Louis L'Amour

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is. — Louis L'Amour

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices. — Louis L'Amour

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. — Louis L'Amour

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight. — Louis L'Amour

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out. — Louis L'Amour

off the leaves and straightened my clothes, wishing there was — Louis L'Amour

When guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

The mind is a basket ... if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. — Louis L'Amour

Kept him from going forward. His innate caution — Louis L'Amour

The door. Far down the street he could — Louis L'Amour

He who plants a tree is a servant of God. — Louis L'Amour

Hate would destroy him who hated. — Louis L'Amour

You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said. — Louis L'Amour

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you. — Louis L'Amour

Yol Bolsun" (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour} — Louis L'Amour

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

I never saw a man get superior so fast. — Louis L'Amour

I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy. — Louis L'Amour

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There — Louis L'Amour

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. — Louis L'Amour

If they didn't accept him, the hell with them - he could go his own way. — Louis L'Amour

listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions. — Louis L'Amour

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know. — Louis L'Amour

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves. — Louis L'Amour

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing. — Louis L'Amour

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. — Louis L'Amour

Feud and one of the most feared men — Louis L'Amour

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision. — Louis L'Amour

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment. — Louis L'Amour

From down the draw, and nobody spoke. All knew that the three — Louis L'Amour

They know that when a man holds a gun he more — Louis L'Amour

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember. — Louis L'Amour

Most men never discover what they've got inside. A man has to face up to trouble before he knows. — Louis L'Amour

Bats and birds taken from those mountains — Louis L'Amour

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it. — Louis L'Amour

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking. — Louis L'Amour

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

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. — Louis L'Amour

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. — Louis L'Amour

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

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

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

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

A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men. — Louis L'Amour

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour

Deep blue. She was beautiful, not merely pretty, but there was in her eyes the haughty disdain of a queen reprimanding a clumsy subject. — Louis L'Amour

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much. — Louis L'Amour

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell. — Louis L'Amour

The trouble with being on the wrong side of the law was the kind of company you had to keep. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry. — Louis L'Amour