There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. Louis L'Amour More Quotes by Louis L'Amour More Quotes From Louis L'Amour Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. Louis L'Amour long-agodonewish There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she. Louis L'Amour shotgunsdangerousdoe One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible. Louis L'Amour visioneyemay Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. Louis L'Amour chakratomorrowtoday 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. Louis L'Amour sticksgonewater A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads. Louis L'Amour gentlemansleepmen Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing. Louis L'Amour submissionevilfeet Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. Louis L'Amour pieceslove-isyears Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth. Louis L'Amour libraryfaultspeople My future is one I must make myself. Louis L'Amour my-future One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking. Louis L'Amour realizinglittlestalking Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. Louis L'Amour lonelywritingadventure A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. Louis L'Amour yesterdaydoewind Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it. Louis L'Amour preparationdreamsometimes He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was. Louis L'Amour 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 historical-novelsteachingdesire The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. Louis L'Amour thievesgunmen When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. Louis L'Amour lonelykindmen I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. Louis L'Amour lightdarkbook 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. Louis L'Amour readingnumbersmotivational
