119 quotes found
"Concerning arresting an abused starving sodbuster wife: "Blaming her would be like blaming the night for being dark.""
"When confronting a cattle rancher who'd committed battery on an Indian boy and cut his tongue out:"
"Commenting of Doc Adams's grumpy disposition: "What's the matter Doc? Someone pull you through a knot hole?""
"I'll sleep better for it when I do sleep, though, knowing I didn't miss nothin' when I wasn't sleepin', you know.""
"On building a pot of coffee: "Most people just don't know how to make good coffee. In the first place, they boil the water before they put the coffee in. Any fool knows you gotta put the coffee in the cold water and bring them both to a boil together. That way you get all of the flavor. Worst thing they do, they throw away the old grounds after using them once. What they don't know is that they are throwing away the best part. You got to keep them old grounds and you add a little fresh coffee every morning and let her boil. Shoot, you don't make a cup, you build a pot. You don't really get a good pot until you've been usin' it about a week. Then it's coffee!""
"On observing a prisoner Matt is releasing from jail, Chester addresses the prisoner, "You look like the dogs had you under the house.""
"On a long ride with Matt, Chester declares, "Why I'm so hungry, my stomach is growing teeth.""
"Safer than chitlins on a city folk's supper plate."
"Hotter than a jug full of red ants."
"If that don't put a clod in your shoe."
"You couldn't burst a bird's egg with a ball-peen hammer."
"This here [stew] will grow hair on your elbows."
"This here [stew] will put muscles in your whiskers."
"[It's] hot enough to fry a horseshoe."
"Tighter than the feathers on a prairie chicken's rump."
"The onliest thing you get from stradlin' the fence is a sore backside."
"I'll get after you like thunder after lightnin'."
"How'd you like to be gatherin' eggs and find her nest?"
"Fine as frogs hair."
"Naked as a plucked prairie chicken."
"Bleedin' like a stuck hog."
"He ain't got the gumption to pound sand down a rat hole."
"I thumped him 'till his ears rang like the liberty bell."
"Crookeder than a dog's hind leg."
"Hold `yer taters."
"[He's] got more friends than a dog's got hairs on his back."
"Sit there like a boll weevil on a corn cob."
"[He] draws trouble like a summer melon draws flies."
"[I] feel better than a barn rooster on a prime hoot."
"Quiet as a mouse tip toeing."
"Quiet as on cotton on cottontail."
"I'll get onto you like ugly on an ape."
"Hoppin' around like a flea on a hot skillet."
"You look like a sunfish who flopped."
"When you learn a thing a day you store up smart."
"That don't hurt a particle."
"If you don't call, then you don't see the hand."
"I made a bigger mess than a sow's bed."
"Ain't you startin' to itch before you git bit?"
"He can't see past the brim of his hat."
"Pooch up like an old toad."
"Rougher than a wagon full of cobs."
"No more chance than a grass hopper in a hen house."
"Flatter than a snake through a ringer."
"I loved that boy like a June morning."
"Quieter than a gagged gopher."
"Sincere as a $5 funeral."
"Show 'em how the cow eat the cabbage."
"You act like my foot’s asleep"
"Quicker than a rat can run over the roof with a piece of raw liver in his mouth."
"Does a mule have a tail"
"the slovering droops -a cattle disease"
"old scudder -old man"
"featherfoot - sneak"
"slackjaw - talk"
"tater trap - mouth"
"quack - quack - doctor"
"looksome - handsome"
"nub - central point"
"amble - walk"
"palaver - talk"
"soulsome - spiritual"
"glom - grab"
"spell - relieve from duty"
"squeemy - overly sensitive"
"a passel - a lot"
"a poke - a bag"
"grump head - ill tempered"
"bent ear - listen"
"twistee - tornado"
"howdyin' - introducing"
"pooch - puff up"
"whomp - to hit"
"slippery gee-jaw - lie"
"snigger - snicker"
"goosler - your throat"
"palotsome - delicious"
"complexicated - complex"
"wobble water - ``whisky"
"there's a pot a brewin' - trouble"
"roundy - no rough edges"
""This is Wyoming in 1897. It's a land of great, open spaces. A land that gives a man plenty of elbow room. Somebody once said that in Wyoming, you could look farther, and see less than any place in the world. Whoever said that couldn't have seen Wyoming as I have. To look at the mountains, and the valleys and the plains, you'd think nothing ever changes out here. Maybe that's true about the land. But it's not true about the people. They change. At least most of them. They've settled down. Twenty years ago, it was a different breed of men that came west. They were looking for adventure and excitement. There was plenty of adventure to go around, and lots of excitement! At first it was the Indians who provided the adventure. And for those who lived to tell about it, there was no question about it's being exciting. It was a time when life was cheap, and man lived for today. The odds were against his being around tomorrow, and he knew it. What's more, he liked it that way. This breed of man loved his life. It was everything he wanted. It was adventure, and excitement, and fun. When he worked hard, he fought hard, and he sure played hard. Then suddenly, one day his world was gone. The prairies and the mountains were the same. The cattle and the horses were the same. The west had grown up. It had changed. But this breed of man was still there. Still looking for the fun and headlong adventure."
"Before she testifies there's something I'd like to say. I don't know what you may have heard here today, what you have already in your minds, but I can tell you this. I was there when Dr. O'Neill made the decision to operate on Mrs. Anderson. She knew the risk she was taking, and she took it. The easy way would have been to let her patient die in agony. And now I want to ask you a question. Would this hearing ever had been held if Pat O'Neill weren't a woman? Doc Spalding has lost patients, every doctor has. So, just lets all of us be sure exactly what it is that's on trial here today. Is it the facts, or our prejudices?"
"He wants to be a hero in a uniform, so he had to go join up! He's a fool! He's about as much cut out to be a soldier as -- If you want to be a soldier you have to learn to take orders. Can you imagine Trampas taking orders from anybody? I mean anybody!"
"I didn't need Trampas to point out the sorry shape we were in, but being Trampas he pointed it out anyhow..."
""Anyone will tell you Trampas is as trustworthy as they come. Take my word for it."
"And Trampas, this is a business trip."
"She’s just like any other woman - she thinks with her heart instead of her head."
"The dead have to be buried...There’s some things you make time for..."
"She's saving herself for some tall, good looking cowboy with hair the color of autumn wheat."
"My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it."
"Suckers and mules, thats what work's for, and mule's got enough sense to turn his tail on it."
"[To the Virginian] I have never heard such hollerin' and shoutin' since the last time I asked you for a day off."
"The thing is, if a woman can't win an argument any other way she can always cry. Then she can't lose."
"Oh, I'm human, all right."
"Now wait a minute. What did you expect me to do, tie him to the horse? Well, you can be sure of one thing. Whatever happens, I'll be blamed for it. I tried. I tried!"
"I guess you said it yourself. I'm just a dumb cowboy. Well, maybe I'm dumb enough to believe that people should be honest and dumb enough to try to stop them when they're not."
"No need to push me, Mister. If you're planning on making a move, make it."
"The Virginian can track a rabbit all the way to St. Louis."
"James Drury - The Virginian (Season 1-9)"
"Doug McClure - Trampas (Season 1-9)"
"Clu Gulager - Sheriff Emmett Ryker (Season 3-6)"
"Gary Clarke - Steve Hill (Season 1-4)"
"Lee J. Cobb - Judge Henry Garth (Season 1-4)"
"Roberta Shore - Betsy Garth (Season 1-4)"
"Randy Boone - Randy Benton (Season 1-3)"
"L. Q. Jones - Andy Belden (Season 2-6; 9)"
"Diane Roter - Jennifer - Garth's Niece (Season 4)"
"John Dehner - Morgan Starr (Season 4)"
"Charles Bickford - John Grainger (Season 5-6)"
"Don Quine - Stacey Grainger (Season 5-6)"
"Sara Lane - Elizabeth Grainger (Season 5-8)"
"John McIntire - Clay Grainger (Season 6-8)"
"Tim Matheson as Jim Horn (Season 8)"
"Stewart Granger - as Col. Alan MacKenzie (Season 9)"
"Guy Williams - Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)"
"George J. Lewis - Don Alejandro de la Vega"
"Gene Sheldon - Bernardo"
"Henry Calvin - Sergeant Demetrio López García"