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
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove. — 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
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
“It was a pity, he reflected, that the men of good will are so poorly armed, for at times it was a… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked… — 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
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — 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
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment… — 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
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — 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
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — 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
