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Only Quotes by Louis L'Amour
- A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
- Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the…
- When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do…
- The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It…
- A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what…
- There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
- The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the…
- Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
- What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely…
- ... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.
- The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
- Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have…
- A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The…
- Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when…
- The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.
- To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
- There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles…
- Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and…
- I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a…
- To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I…
- In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings…
- Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give…
- It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing…
- Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained,…
- when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle