“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.”
Source: The Quick and the Dead (1973), Ch. 4; L'amour here, and in the title of the work, uses a double entendre, with reference to archaic use of "quick" to mean "living" and a famous idiom regarding the living and the dead which originated in William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament (1526), 2 Timothy 4:1: "I testifie therfore before god and before the lorde Iesu Christ which shall iudge quicke and deed at his aperynge in his kyngdom."
Context: He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead." by Louis L'Amour?
Louis L'Amour65
Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988Related quotes
“The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home.
Source: Lover Reborn
“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 88
Numbered fragments
“The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 7, Usage, p. 45.
Roberto Durán (1951) Panamanian boxer
Carlos Palomino, 16 June 1980, after his defeat by Duran http://coxscorner.tripod.com/duran.html <br class="br">About Durán
“Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
