I'm watching Rooster Cogburn tonight, for maybe the 10th time. The Duke was so cool. Twice he uses the term "Lustrum". It means 5 years. I'm looking forward to using that one in conversation.
People will be so impressed.
Jim

If you haven't yet done so I recommend reading the novel "True Grit", on which the screenplay was based. It is readily apparent that every effort was made to follow the basic dialogue created by the author. Very enjoyable read.

My favorite John Wayne line: "Life is tough. It's tougher is you're stupid". Can't remember which flick that comes from, but I have used it with my kids and grandkids for years.

One of his I’ve borrowed form the movie McLintock: “Don’t say it’s a fine morning or I’ll shoot ya’.”

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That won't happen if you wait a lustrum. Hey wait!

The Lovely Missus P&R Fan has a Bachelors degree in Psychology. (I'm her long term case study). I don't have a college degree. Figured after owning a business for 29 years I don't need one. Anyway, for a blonde she's pretty smart. I remarked to her we have been married for over 5 Lustrum. Had no idea what I was talkin' about.
I feel like such an intellectual.
Jim

It's attributed to Wayne's character in "Sands of Iwo Jima".

The similar "This life's HARD man, but it's HARDER if you're stupid! ", came from one of my favorite books and movies. "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".

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Can open, worms everywhere.

The Soviet system was know to produce 'Lustrum Plans'.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

I find myself using some of his quotes and sayings.

..."Tighter than Dicks hatband"...

"A cow's nothin' but a lot of trouble tied up in a leather bag."

In Red River, when young Matt says "the cows are gonna get away", he answers, "Wherever they go, they'll be on my land".
It would be nice to be able to say that!

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Been up since before breakfast

She's got you right where she wants you.

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Life Is A Gift. Defend it!

"I'm gonna blow your head off. It's as simple as that"

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Life Is A Gift. Defend it!

my favorite is from true grit also: the line right after Robert Duvall says "that's mighty bold talk for a one eyed fat man". lee

“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living."

John Wayne

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LIVE FROM THE DAWGHOUSE

I used his " you should find another line of work pilgrim, this one sure don't fit your pistol" line on a male nurse when I was in the hospital.

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Stay safe people!

I feel pretty smart quoting Tom Waits when saying, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me instead of a frontal lobotomy". But people just think that sounds stupid.

"I would'nt do that, unless you want to sing soprano!"

One quote I have used often, and I don't recall where I first heard it or came up with it.
If your gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough.

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I think my favorite John Wayne movie was The Shootist.

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Bernard Books

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"If ya say that again you'll be pushin' up daisies"

Don't remember which movie it's from.

Thats a great one.My favorite Duke quote is:"You can't fix stupid."

This is not a movie quote.

"No matter who gets hurt,who gets killed, your fault my fault, nobodys fault, im going to blow your head off, its as simple as that." Or something along those lines.

The one that sticks out in my mind is the one made to Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys" Bruce Dern "Mister Anderson do you take me for a fool" John Wayne "I take you for the vermin ridden *******. that you are".

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"The best place to be is behind Mississippi when he fires that thing" from "Eldorado".

My best friend is a lousy shot with anything that goes bang, but still loves to shoot.

I presented him with a Mossberg 500 with 18" barrel and pistol grip. On the left side was a piece of duct tape with MISSISSIPPI in wide black marker 3" high!

All of our friends get the joke, (that he can't hit the south end of a northbound jackass), he doesn't. It's his prized, most used shooter. That makes the joke even better.

From True Grit movie, Rooster to LeBeouf, arguing about who could "shade" who in a gun-fight.

"If you get cross-wise of me, you will think a thousand of brick have fell on you"

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wanna do right-- not right now

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Death? Smile back...

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In Eldorado Arthur Honeycutt "Bull" exclaims

"WELL I'LL BE A SUCK EGGED MULE."

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”

“If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.”

“I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what’s happening. They’re getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?”

Nay.That was Jack Elam as Tuscaroras dad in: Rio Lobo. He watched the lady "with the legs" run to his ranch house and said: "Well ill be a suck-egg mule. Has legs like that and can shoot too."

This little exchange from The Shootist gave me a laugh:

John Books: "Damn."
Mrs. Rogers: "John Bernard, you swear too much."
John Books: "Like hell I do."

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You're shy a few manners.

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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LM #497

I'll call your bluff, heres my hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdYKrdwACk

Recently I was asked to watch over a friend's store and his two young female sales clerks while he and his wife went on vacation.


I told the girls about the time that John Wayne and other actors came to Gainesville Texas promoting the movie "Red River". John Wayne (dressed for the role with a Colt on his hip) walked down the east side of the court house in front of Shad and Pulte Hardware,. I was standing in awe with a bunch of other kids (I was 8). He walked up to me and drew back and took a swing at my head. I froze ! He pulled the punch like he does in the movies and barely touch my chin and laughed and said "How are you doing there kid?" "I told him fine since I was still alive".

After I told that story to the sales clerks they both look at me funny and said "Who is John Wayne?"

This world is going to the dogs in a hurry!!!!!!


Dwight

I have that one as a metal sign--stuck to my fridge...

Looks like we both are correct then. Jack Elam said that in Rio Lobo as well. This is a take off of a great line said in: The War Wagon: "Yours was earlier but, mine was more memorable." The original line was between Duke and Kirk Douglas after they shot two. "Mine hit the ground first. " "Mine was taller."

I know where your coming from.If you read any of my posts on old and classic movies--you will know what I mean. Case in point--a year old neighbor of mine thinks that classic movies include: Fast and Furious, Batman, Spiderman and Predator.

He never heard of Errol Flynn,James Stewart, Paul Muni, Charles Laughton, Lon Cheney sr or jr, Alan hale Sr, James Whitmore Sr ,Gregory Peck, Randolph Scott, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable,Gary Cooper,Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, but actually has heard of John Wayne and Lee Marvin. However, he doesnt know what they look like?

Allmy life well before cable tv was a reality in my hometown I heard of all these and others like: Dane Clark, Robert Taylor, etc etc etc etc,knew what they looked like--but had never seen any of their films till we got cable. They were just never played. Partly because of that--John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Richard Widmark, James Stewart and such are my top favorites.

this neighbor has no clue--who Audie Murphy,Richard Burton, John Mills, and such are.

Yeah, I love this expression! "Bull" (I think the actor's name was spelled Hunnicutt) was a great character. I believe he was expressing some astonishment at the croton oil in "Mississippi's" hangover cure.

If I recall correctly, it was "Bull" who said this, also. He was explaining to the Dr. (who was patching Wayne's character, "Cole Thornton"), that "Thornton" had received his shotgun wounds from "Mississippi".

To me, the best (at least, the funniest) line in that movie is probably one that most people don't appreciate...and perhaps there was no humorous intent, and it's just my warped way of viewing the world. But, after "Thornton" and "J.P. Harrah" (Robert Mitchum) have been blasting bad guys in the old church, and one of the bad guys escapes the church to be shot at by "Mississippi", "Thornton" and "Harrah" are running toward the sound of the gunfire, when "Bull" comes into view running from another direction. "Thornton" asks, "Where'd you come from?", or something to that effect, and "Bull" replies, "I heard a noise!" That cracks me up! Really...you heard a "noise"? After 5 minutes of non-stop gunfire...you heard a "noise"? Hilarious!

One of my favorite quotes from a Wayne movie is this: "If you say three, mister, you'll never hear the man count ten." It's from "The Quiet Man", and oddly enough, Wayne's character is also named "Thornton", except Sean instead of Cole.

Tim

Never heard of RANDOLPH SCOTT OR AUDIE MURPHY !!!!!

GET A ROPE !!!!!

I often wonder if people really spoke like some of the "True Grit" characters in that era, or more like "Deadwood". I'm currently reading "The Man Who Would Not Be Washington", a biography of Robert E. Lee. Educated people certainly wrote that style of prose, but we all know, few people lace their correspondence or journals with expletives.

My favorite comic-like scene in El Dorado--was when they fed Robert Mitchum--that concoction to cure one from a drunken stupor. It was so three stooges like.

John Ford had several names he loved using in many movies: Some being York, Thornton etc. Its like Sam Fuller loved using the name: Lemchek--in many of his movies too. In Fullers case--Lemchek was the name of a friend of his who was killed in WWII.

Its disgusting aint it? I do try to convert the wicked ignorants and have won over a few in my time. Got a great friend in England who only liked watching Randolph Scott Westerns--till I got him into watching Dukes westerns too. His wife is peeved with me because he is now spending loads of money buying John Wayne movies.