When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country. — 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
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
“If you play games with men,” he replied, “you’ll play by men’s rules.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“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 Image
