--- title: "2 Cowboys Quotes By Edward Abbey" description: "2 Cowboys quotes by Edward Abbey. Plus more from Edward Abbey and more Cowboys sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png" --- > [The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-american-west-now-even-cowboys/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png) > [Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/edward-abbey-254_asks_cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow-2_2512724.png) ## Other authors on Cowboys - [B.J. Daniels 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/b-j-daniels/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-troy-aikman-92300.jpg) Troy Aikman 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/troy-aikman/) - [Micah Parsons 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/micah-parsons/) ## More by Edward Abbey > [A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/a-man-could-be-a-lover-and-defender-of-the-wilderness-without-ever-in/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote \_The Golden Ass\_.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/apuleius-married-a-rich-widow-then-wrote-the-golden-ass/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/except-for-the-scale-of-the-operation-there-was-nothing-unusual-about/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/by-the-age-of-eighteen-a-human-has-acquired-enough-joy-and-heartache/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/our-institutions-are-too-big-they-represent-not-the-best-but-the/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/no-man-made-structure-in-all-of-american-history-has-been-hated-so/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/where-all-pretend-to-be-thinking-alike-it-s-likely-that-no-one-is/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/nobody-has-so-many-friends-that-he-can-afford-to-lose-one/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/but-why-the-questioner-insists-why-do-people-like-you-pretend-to-love/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/civilization-is-a-youth-with-a-molotov-cocktail-in-his-hand-culture/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/all-revolutions-have-failed-perhaps-but-rebellion-for-good-cause-is/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/me-i-m-living-under-a-sword-too-as-jack-may-have-told-you-an-old-wino/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/look-here-i-want-to-say-for-godsake-folks-get-out-of-them-there/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/reason-has-seldom-failed-us-because-it-has-seldom-been-tried/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/what-is-the-essence-of-the-art-of-writing-part-one-have-something-to/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/edward-abbey/#itemlist", "name": "2 Cowboys Quotes By Edward Abbey", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-american-west-now-even-cowboys/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.” — Edward Abbey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/edward-abbey-254_asks_cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow-2_2512724.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/edward-abbey-254_asks_cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow-2_2512724.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/edward-abbey-254_asks_cowboys-make-better-lovers-ask-any-cow-2_2512724.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.” — Edward Abbey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/edward-abbey/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/edward-abbey/", "name": "Cowboys Quotes by Edward Abbey", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboys/edward-abbey/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/edward-abbey-254_american-west_the-sexual-revolution-transformed-the-am_2077713.png" }, "description": "2 Cowboys quotes by Edward Abbey. 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