Top 201 Quotes & Sayings by Louis L'Amour - Page 4

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

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.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

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.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

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

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

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

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

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.