Radigan and North to the Rails Quotes

“sleep whenever there was time and to eat when there was food.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“Not even a mouse trusts himself to one hole only,”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“when a man was away from women for months he got to feeling it.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“you stick your lunch-hooks into my corn bin without I say and you’ll catch yourself a death of cold, because I’ll open your belly with a shotgun.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“He did not like to admit that he might be in error, and he was also an optimistic planner: he expected the breaks to go his way. This, she remembered having heard, was true of the criminal mind;”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“he had been so right, and she hated him for it.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“There are things a man learns about the cold, and the first one is never to work up a sweat, for when a sweating man slows down or stops the sweat freezes inside his clothing, forming a thin coating of ice near the skin. After that, unless one finds shelter quickly, it is only a matter of time. He had also learned not to dress too heavily, but to wear the garments loose so they form a cushion of warm air next to the body.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“There are things a man learns about the cold, and the first one is never to work up a sweat, for when a sweating man slows down or stops the sweat freezes inside his clothing, forming a thin coating of ice near the skin. After that, unless one finds shelter quickly, it is only a matter of time.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“He who hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprise.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“weren’t getting any virgins if it was fight they wanted.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“there is no bargaining with a man who won’t talk.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“I can ride anything that wears hair,” she said,”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“If you play games with men,” he replied, “you’ll play by men’s rules.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“Folks that prosperous don’t usually pick up and move. Mostly, movers are poor folks.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“woman who takes cards in a man’s game holds the status of a man and is entitled to no more respect.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“Would you fight a woman, Mr. Radigan? I thought Western men more gallant.” There was no yielding in Radigan. “When you opened the ball,” he replied, “you called the tune.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“Many times the first man to move was the first to die,”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“He did not take chances, but had helped to bury men who did.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“the very idea of taking a risk that was not demanded by circumstances was repugnant to him.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails

“A walking man will kick the grass down in the direction of travel, but a horse with the swinging movements of its hoofs will knock the grass down so it points in the direction from which it has come.”
― Louis L'Amour, Radigan and North to the Rails