Louis LAmour Quotes - Page 8

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

A journey is time suspended.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

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.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

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.

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.