Quotes from Max Brand

have seen that same smile which stirs the heart of a woman and makes a man reach for his revolver.

When the leader of the pack springs and fails to kill, the rest of the pack tear him to pieces.

To a friend you give yourself away, and you get yourself back bigger and stronger.

He saw three ugly natures, three small, cruel souls.

The minds which one found in the pages of a book were understandable. But the minds of living men—how terrible they were! One

And his face—the way he laughed—why he didn't look like no fool at all, boys. But just as if he'd waked up!

the doctor saw that the fire was still raging in the hollow breast of the cattleman, but there was no longer fuel to feed it.

me. Glendin, there have been cowardly legal murders

his life. And Moore swears that you rode out

a gent gets his reward when he sees other people happy. As

I'll tell you, Champ, that a man has enough trouble in the world without asking for it.

Besides, most of the fellows that are ridin' long and sleepin' short, they have been drove out of society by the meanness of other men, and not because they wanted to go wrong.

thousand of Hal's getting away. Four

why do humans like him so much? Why does he mean so much to me—to Kate?" "Simply because he is different. You get from him what you could get from no other man in the world, perhaps

There's too much dressing up and not enough places to go.

They get the pleasure of being together. I get the pleasure of being alone. They

A good general, Allister was fond of saying, plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe.

perfect evil always wins something akin to admiration from more common people.

There is no need for reason in a mob. One has only to cry, "Kill!" and the mob will start of its own volition to find something that may be slain. Also

Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It

Life is a serious problem to a man over thirty. To a man under thirty it is simply a game.

Why,' says they to themselves, 'I been sleeping; I ain't been living all this!' And they wake up and get ready to live their real lives, but they find that their real lives are just about up, and by the time they find out what they've done with themselves they're ready to die.

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.