Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again. 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-ago done wish 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 shotguns dangerous doe 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 vision eye may Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. Louis L'Amour chakra tomorrow today 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 sticks gone water 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 gentleman sleep men 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 submission evil feet 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 pieces love-is years 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 library faults people 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 realizing littles talking 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 lonely writing adventure A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. Louis L'Amour yesterday doe wind Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it. Louis L'Amour preparation dream sometimes 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-novels teaching desire 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 thieves gun men When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. Louis L'Amour lonely kind men 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 light dark book 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 reading numbers motivational
