Quotes from Louis L'Amour

reasoning now. I plan to get them to sit down

Trouble with me was, I was a mighty poor hater. There was satisfaction in winning, but winning would have been better if nobody had to lose. That's the way I've always felt, I guess.

When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.

if his destiny was to die I would not stand in his way.

said, "went far out

It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it was always chance, bad luck.… The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure.

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

The only law we have here is the law of strength. The only justice we have must live in the hearts and minds of men. The land is hard, and so the men are hard. We make mistakes, of course, but when there is a case of murder, we try to handle the murderer so he will not kill again.

And at night," I added, "a man is too tired. I fall asleep over my books, but we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Shaping a country is not all done with the hands but with the mind as well.

Only men must do. It's in their nature to do, and much of what they've done is for the best, only sometimes they start doing before they understand that what they'll get won't be nearly as wonderful as what they had.

My father finished his life," I continued, "and made a better foothold for me. And I in my time shall do the same for my sons. Yet it is honor I wish for them, honor and pride of person, not wealth. Nor do I wish for titles, or a place near a Queen or a King, for pride of title or family is an empty thing, like dry leaves that blow in the cold winds of autumn.

at me again, and then the pen. "If you want that money," he said, "you had better sign.

no argument of his could hope to dam the flow of words that poured over the spillway of Price Macomber's lips.

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Always give yourself an edge, boy. You may never need it, but it saves a lot of worry. Learn to depend on yourself, and if you expect nothing from anybody else you will never be disappointed.

There's a little cowboy in all of us, a little frontier.

We who walk the woodland paths know that although all men look, not many see.

opening. Sticks were broken, a fire started.

there is no bargaining with a man who won't talk.

There is no good time in which to die

wealth, but he had been a hunter. Never so much at home as when he was far from home and in the deep woods, the far veldt, the desert, the mountains. THE TABLE HAD been set up

When men live by hunting it is a constant task with all our mouths to feed, and usually the Indians who came visiting. The

It was born then, this idea that I must have books, not only for our children but for Abigail and myself. We must not lose touch with what we were, with what we had been, nor must we allow the well of our history to dry up, for a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition can also be an anchor of stability and a shield to guard one from irresponsibility and hasty decision.

This is a different world, Helen. You knew that, I could see it. Sometimes when there is nothing between you and nature you find out things you wish you didn't know…sometimes when you look at yourself you are smaller in the scheme of things than you thought you were." I shifted