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Louis L'Amour Quotes | Quotes said by Louis L'Amour

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #1

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


  • Louis L'Amour Quote #2

    ...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #3

    [Barnabas speaks] I will drink water.

    Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale . . . or wine, if you are a Frenchman. [William answers]

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #4

    A journey is time suspended.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #5

    Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #6

    Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #7

    Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #8

    Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #9

    Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative...

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #10

    Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #11

    Folks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #12

    Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #13

    Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #14

    Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #15

    I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #16

    I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #17

    I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #18

    I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #19

    I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!

    You will hate the next place, too, I said. What you are you will carry with you.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #20

    I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #21

    If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #22

    Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #23

    It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. Tread lightly on the paths, he had told me. Others will come when you have gone.

    That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #24

    It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?
    Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #25

    It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #26

    It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #27

    It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #28

    Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough!

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #29

    Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

  • Louis L'Amour Quote #30

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

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