“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”
Source: The Quick and the Dead
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Louis L'Amour 65
Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988Related quotes

The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson (1989)
Interviews, Television Appearances

Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 53.

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
Source: The Analects

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
Source: House Rules

“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”

“You invite no man to dinner, Cotta, but your bath-companion; the baths alone provide you with a guest. I was wondering why you had never asked me; now I understand that when naked I displeased you.”
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
I, 23 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)