Quotes from Louis L'Amour

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy's capacity to resist.

The riders got the cattle out of the brakes and started them downvalley to the accompaniment of many yells, much shouting back and forth, and the usual good-natured persiflage and joking that is part of any roundup crew.

Nothing in his life had given him confidence in his hold upon the future. All he had learned indicated that one lived by avoiding trouble, or if it could not be avoided, seeing it first.

yet if a stranger penetrated an Indian village without being seen he was treated with hospitality as long as he was within the village, for the Indian tried to keep peace in his own village.

Only the wind made a sound to be heard, a soft soughing that seemed to whisper of the impending rain. The

we've got! Maybe better than all of them!" "Maybe," Deke said shortly, starting

From Caprock Rancher : Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight . . . fight. Talk about it after.

Jeremiah stood there alone, his big hands empty, watching his brother go. Zeb was the last of his family, and when his family went west they never came back. Linus had come back, but that was before Jeremiah's time. None of the others ever had. There must be something out there, he said aloud. There must be something out there that gets 'em. Then, half smiling, he added, Maybe it's the varmint!

Fire, man's first and faithful friend, and ever a potential enemy.

thinking of his own. How did a

Often the small rancher did not even own a bull. He let his cows roam the free range, profiting from the bulls owned by the

Or was it simply that something deep inside me still longed for the sea, something inherited, something only half held, some unnamed yearning? What man truly understands his motives?

but two shots, and then it was the knife until death.

Some folks think that being smart in the books is the only kind of smart, but that just isn't so. Men learn a lot by doin', and they learn by listenin' to what others say, but when a man is workin' on a farm or walkin' in the woods or ridin' across country, he can do a lot of thinking. Many a man who reads a lot just repeats what he's read, and not what he thinks.

they could see them coming now, many dark figures, blossoming with fire.

There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.

He did not like to admit that he might be in error, and he was also an optimistic planner: he expected the breaks to go his way. This, she remembered having heard, was true of the criminal mind;

every stranger is a possible enemy. He

If you play games with men," he replied, "you'll play by men's rules.

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

fighting man. Loss Degner was bad all through and made no

The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her.