You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it..

Lookin' back is a bad habit..

I always go backwards when I am backing up..

I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked,….

The wicked flee when none pursueth..

What have you done when you have bested a fool?.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone..

One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let ….

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did no….

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational a….

MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Ye….

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or ….

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of ….

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night..

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?.

Time just gets away from us..

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time..

I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame ….

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed..

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes..

She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot ….