The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but… — 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
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
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
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
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a… — 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
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What… — 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 wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. — 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
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
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
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things. — 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
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 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
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness. — 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