Quotes from Louis L'Amour

What we did not possess we had to make for ourselves or learn to do without, but the little I learned helped me to build a defense against the change that time would surely bring, to teach me that to live was to change, and that change was the one irrevocable law. Nothing remained the same.

Sometimes it's better to reserve judgment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

No telling what those men wanted... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian...

As the days went by, I began to see this girl I had married was even more than I had suspected and in every way.

he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

Bats and birds taken from those mountains

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over, Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. ~Kearney McRaven

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

It was a sea of horns above the red, brown, brindle, and white-splashed backs of the steers.

KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some

There are two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish , they start out and do it. They become what they want to or they get what they want. They will it.

who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant

We are a people of the frontier, born to it, bred to it, looking always toward it. And when the frontiers of our own land are gone, when we have drawn them all into an ordered world, then we must seek other frontiers, the frontiers of the mind beyond which men have not gone, the frontiers that lie out beyond the stars, the frontiers that lie within our own selves, that hold us back from what we would do, what we would achieve.

I never liked the term mystic as applied to someone or a way of thought. It covers something very profound and an awful lot of nonsense passes as profound thought.

Men have passed on the knowledge of how to mix cement, lay brick, splice a line, navigate a ship, make steel, and dozens of other crafts, yet in politics, statecraft, and social relationships we continue to repeat old mistakes.

The blood of good men makes the earth rich

The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been.

Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day's horizon.

Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it.

Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.

The savage is never far from the surface in any of us, but because we know he is there we fight it down.

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.