Gus McCrae: “You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I’m sorry you crossed the line.”
Woodrow F. Call: “The best thing you can do for death is ride off from it.”
Gus McCrae: “Lorie darlin’, life in San Francisco, you see, is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it’s likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things, like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.”
Gus McCrae: “Yesterday’s gone, we can’t get it back.”
Gus McCrae: “What are you talkin’ about? You don’t even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that’s possible.”
Gus McCrae: “Besides a whiskey, I think we will require a little respect. . . . If you care to turn around, you will see what we looked like when we was younger and the people around here wanted to make us senators. What we didn’t put up with back then was doddlin’ service, and as you can see, we still don’t put up with it.” “
Gus McCrae: “A man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.”
Woodrow : “I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.”
Woodrow Call : ”Better to have that and not need it than need it and not have it.”
“…you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw.”
Gus McCrae : “They don’t know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend on ‘em.”
Gus McCrae : “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Woodrow Call : “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”
“If you want any one thing too badly, it’s likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things – like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.””
Gus McCrae : “I won’t say I did and I won’t say I didn’t, but I will say that a man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.”
Gus McCrae : “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Woodrow Call : “I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.” “
Gus McCrae : “It’s not dying I’m talking about, it’s living”