Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.