The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men? — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it means, either.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them? — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share