The Max Brand Megapack Quotes

“Don’t you aim to work with iron. Aim to work with men. They’re what need the bendin’. They’re what it pays to shape. Heat ’em and temper ’em. Hammer ’em and form ’em. If you break one of ’em, here and there, it don’t make no difference. Throw the pieces outside the shop. Leave”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“It ain’t every hand that can move as fast as the eye can jump, and faster. But patience climbs the highest hill and—”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“But then, there’s a thing that’s harder to watch than a sword or nitroglycerin. It cuts and it tears—a tongue does!”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“A thing half done is a game not won,” said he. “If there’s only one window in the house unlocked the devil may fly through it as easy as if the whole place was open.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“A fitted shoe is a right good shoe,” said the old man, enthusiastically. “I’ll fit that shoe to the breadth of a hair.” “And you’ll be all the night about it,” declared the son. “Better a late start than a never ending,” said the father.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“They get the pleasure of being together. I get the pleasure of being alone. They”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“There’s too much dressing up and not enough places to go.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“Besides, most of the fellows that are ridin’ long and sleepin’ short, they have been drove out of society by the meanness of other men, and not because they wanted to go wrong.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“I’ll tell you, Champ, that a man has enough trouble in the world without asking for it.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“In the Far West there is one thing which is more fabulously valuable then gold, even. And that is a story, whether it be truth or good, true-sounding fiction. Stories”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“And his face—the way he laughed—why he didn’t look like no fool at all, boys. But just as if he’d waked up!”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“The minds which one found in the pages of a book were understandable. But the minds of living men—how terrible they were! One”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“Some damn fools say they ain’t a God! Some damn fools! Something for nothing. That’s what He gives! Steady,”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“There is a use for fighting men, isn’t there?” she brooded. “Use for ’em?” laughed Corson. “Why, lady, how come we to be sitting here? Because gents have fought to put us here! How come this is part of God’s country? Because a lot of folks buckled on guns to make it that! Use”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“why do humans like him so much? Why does he mean so much to me—to Kate?” “Simply because he is different. You get from him what you could get from no other man in the world, perhaps,”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“the doctor saw that the fire was still raging in the hollow breast of the cattleman, but there was no longer fuel to feed it.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“There is no need for reason in a mob. One has only to cry, “Kill!” and the mob will start of its own volition to find something that may be slain. Also,”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“At once they were absolutely silenced, for money talks in an eloquent voice. Deliberately”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“To a friend you give yourself away, and you get yourself back bigger and stronger.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“Lemme tell you what a friend is. He’s the bunkie that guards your back in a fight; he’s the man that can ask for your hoss or your gun or your life, no matter how bad you want ’em; he’s the gent that trusts you when the world calls you a liar; he’s the one that don’t grin when you’re in trouble, who gives a cheer when you’re going good. With a friend you let down the bars and turn your mind loose like wild hosses. I take out my soul like a gun and show it to my friend in the palm of my hand. It’s”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“He softened his voice. “Gaspar,” he said, “keep your head up. Make up your mind that you’ll fight to the last gasp. Why, it makes me plumb sick to see a grown man give up like you do!”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“He saw three ugly natures, three small, cruel souls.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“If it doesn’t make callouses on a girl’s hands it will make them on her heart. I’ve been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come.” Something flared in her.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“if a man ain’t got the heart inside, it don’t make no difference how big around the chest he measures.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“I’ve come here for the silence,” he said. “Silence,” repeated”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“the stranger met every remark; not a thoughtful pause, but rather as though he wondered if it were worth while to make any answer.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“a gent gets his reward when he sees other people happy. As”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“I hate your infernal croaking, but, if you’re bound to talk, I suppose that I got to listen. Blaze away and finish up.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack

“Why,’ says they to themselves, ‘I been sleeping; I ain’t been living all this!’ And they wake up and get ready to live their real lives, but they find that their real lives are just about up, and by the time they find out what they’ve done with themselves they’re ready to die.”
― Max Brand, The Max Brand Megapack