Louis L'Amour Quotes
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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
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A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
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If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
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Politics is the art of making civilization work.
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The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
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A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
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After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
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Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.
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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
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Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.
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What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
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I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.
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when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.
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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.
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To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
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No man is lost while he yet lives.
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To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
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Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
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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. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
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Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
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Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
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Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
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