After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
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...
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
You would be wise" he agreed, "To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is fo...
Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter...
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.
It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L’Amour
I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not...
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to...
The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?Tell me.Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something.
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 ine...