Louis L'Amour Quotes
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.
The Apache don't have a word for love, " he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?""Tell me.""Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around.
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.
Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.
...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.
Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.
...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.
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.
Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.
People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.
I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.
It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.
She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.
No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.
I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief.
A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first
If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?
To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
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.
To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.