Roy Bean Quotes

12 quotes in 131 categories

• Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering' you none.
• You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.
• A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the…
• And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
• Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
• Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
• Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.
• You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and…
• And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
• And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
• Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
• I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

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