Quotes from Louis L'Amour

We live in wild country, sir. I know folks who think all wild things are sweet and cuddly, but they've never come into a henhouse after a weasel has been there. He can drink the blood of only one or two, but often as not he'll kill every one of them. Wolves will do it in a pen of lambs, too. There are savage beasts in the world, Mr. Chantry, and men who are just as savage.

there's nothing better than two, a man and woman, who walk together. When they walk right together there's no way too long, no night too dark.

Nothing in my nature permitted me to trust to fortune, for it was my belief that good luck comes to those who work hard and plan well. So

The wounds had healed, but the scars would be mine forever.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same

I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.

I can ride anything that wears hair," she said

was." "I knew, Mr. Stacy." "Was it some old quarrel? Something that happened

Many people desire things they do not need.

belts. Dud's face was very pale, but somehow Rock sensed that Dud was glad to see him, and it

Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

If a man or woman is inclined to murder or violence, owning a gun is not important. There are always a dozen things about with which a man can be killed. For

Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man's energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.

History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment.

There is a magic about the desert at night. Until you have seen it, stood alone in the midst of it, you cannot know what enchantment is. There is a stillness and a nearness of stars that no other place on Earth offers.

The night before there had been much talk while I was at table, and taking no part in it, I listened nonetheless, for a trail is followed not only upon the earth but in the minds of those one pursues or the minds of those whose thinking is similar.

The Indian peoples I had known belonged to clans, and the clans demanded that each member conform.

Riches are a claim to distinction for those who have no other right to it. Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves, and often the ancestor from whom they claim descent is one they would not allow in the house if they met him today.

Contrary to general opinion, slave raids from Africa to the coasts of Europe were not uncommon. The raid on the village of Baltimore, a town in West Cork, Ireland, took place in 1631. More than one hundred people were carried away into slavery.

buckskin and maybe grabbing Lorna's bridle, too. It must have hurt when I flopped him into the saddle but he didn't make a sound, just glared at me. Taking up

My greatest complaint with present-day sexual writing is that nobody seems to be having any fun. Sex is an ordeal, or it is rape, or an athletic endeavor. Only the French find it amusing--as it certainly is. Many of those who choose it for subject matter linger on the most unpleasant aspects or treat it like a discovery. Actually, they needn't. It's been here all the time.

A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.

You must remember, my friend, that if we leave the governing to others, then others will govern, and possibly not as we would like. In a country such as this, none of us is free of responsibility.

Women were nothing if not realistic. They were practical. Their very nature as bearers of children made them so. For whenever they looked at a man there must always be the subconscious question of whether that man could take care of her and her children?