Quote by Charles Portis Download Open image ““Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”” — Charles Portis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.” — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
“You can live as free men, but if you choose not to, your society will surely die.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Throughout his twenty-eight years on the island, goats are as wild as it gets.” — Richard T Nash Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Who is the best marshal they have?' The sheriff thought on it for a minute. He said, 'I would have to weigh that proposition. There is near about two hundred of them. I reckon William Waters is the best tracker. He is a half-breed Comanche and it is something to see, watching him cut for sign. The meanest one is… — Charles Portis Copy Share
“Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“In South Texas I saw three interesting things. The first was a tiny girl, maybe ten years old, driving in a 1965 Cadillac. She wasn't going very fast, because I passed her, but still she was cruising right along, with her head tilted back and her mouth open and her little hands gripping the wheel. Then I saw an old… — Charles Portis Copy Share
“With that, Quincy brought the bowie knife down on Moon's cuffed hand and chopped off four fingers which flew up before my eyes like… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who… — Charles Portis Copy Share
“I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful” — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
