You boys are going to get the drizzles if you don't relax!

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A man that won't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough!

"What's good for me may not be good for the weak minded"

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"Cheerful in all weathers… Never shirked a task… Splendid behavior." Woodrow

"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Woodrow

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We don’t rent pigs.

“I’m the boss, that’s why I’ve got time to read,” the reading man said. “My name’s Wilbarger.” He wore iron-rimmed spectacles.
“I like to snatch a minute for Mr. Milton, and the morning’s my only hope,” Wilbarger added. “At night I’m apt to be in a stampede, and you can’t read Mr. Milton during a stampede—not and take his sense. My days are mostly taken up with lunkheads and weather and sick horses, but I sometimes get a moment of peace after breakfast.”

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"Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop."

From the Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit quote on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign scene:

Call: For all you know it invites people to rob us.

Gus: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.

I did look up what it means. A grape changes color when it sees another grape.

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“When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt.

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” he added, a little solemnly.”

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No 12. Woodrow has just buried Gus and puts up the grave marker made of the famous Hat Creek Cattle Company sign. Woodrow says: “I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.”

No 11. When the boys seem a little shocked by Gus’, shall we say, manly appetites, he says: “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”

No 10. Right after Gus has cut the cards with Lorie and she accuses him of cheating. He says, “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.”

No 9. Not long before Gus goes guns blazing into Blue Duck’s camp to save Lorie, he says, “They don’t know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend on ‘em.”

No 8. Gus finds July Johnson burying his son, and Jenny and Rosco. July is naturally distraught, blaming himself, saying he should have stayed with them. Gus says: “Yesterday’s gone, we can’t get it back.” But he does assure him that if he ever runs into Blue Duck again, he will kill him for him.

No 7. Gus gets exasperated with Woodrow because Woodrow, to Gus’s way of thinking, is being dense. Gus says: “Woodrow, you just don’t ever get the point – ‘It’s not dyin’ I’m talkin’ about, it’s livin’.”

No 6. This quote punctuates the scene when Jake Spoon must be hanged along with the murdering horse thieves he has thrown in with. Jake pleads his case but Gus has little sympathy. He says, “You know how it works, Jake. You ride with the outlaw, you die with the outlaw. Sorry, you crossed the line.”

No 5. The San Antonio bar scene has several great lines together, so I decided to count them as one quote.

The bartender, upon insulting Gus and Call, gets his nose broken when Gus slams his face into the oak bar. Gus explains: “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 her 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.”

As they rode away, Woodrow tells Gus he’s lucky he didn’t get thrown in jail and Gus says, “Ain’t much of a crime, whackin’ a surly bartender.”

No 4. A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it?”

No 3. This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.

The first comes at the first of the movie, back at Lonesome Dove when Bol infers that Gus may be too old for romance anymore and Gus sets him straight. He says, “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

Following soon after that scene comes Call’s advice to Newt. Call hands him his first pistol and says,”Better to have that and not need it than need it and not have it.”

No 2. Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.

“You see, life in San Francisco 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.”

No 1. I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.

After Call beat an army scout to a pulp, the horrified townspeople – who have never witnessed such violence before – are standing around in shock and seem to require an explanation. Call obliges them. He says, “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”


This is CAJUN speaking. My favorite is #2

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Cut the deck for a poke? Woodrow's down by the river cleaning his gun.

I am a certified Lonesome Dove freak. Of all the fabulous lines, Woodrow's comment on rude behavior is my favorite. PERFECT!!

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"Well Ma'm I am half honest"

Gary,

Ya missed one......."Wooo...This water so cold, I believe it shrivel'd my pod!"

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My personal favorite.....The scene where they're gonna hang that bunch of horse thieves.

Gus tell Dan Suggs..........

"I'll say this, Suggs; you're the kind of man it's a pleasure to hang.

If all you can talk is guff, you can talk it to the Devil.


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Great thread. I’d have chimed in earlier but I was wigglin’ my bean.
Just remembered this book I found in a usually expensive used book store for six bucks. Pictured with appropriate sixgun here.

Just before Gus is hit by the Indians.
He and Pea were talking about chasin the buffalo
and Gus explaining why.

Topic turn to a man called Old Man Barlow who had
been hooked by a bull years earlier.
Gus commented that ..."Old man Barlow was a slow thinker..like someone else I could mention."

Unfazed.. Pea replied..."Well, he was a slow walker after that bull hooked em...

Lonesome Dove is also an outstanding novel by Larry McMurtry. It won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.



If you liked the TV miniseries, you’ll like the book.

“I gave twenty-eight skunk hides for her,” the old man said suddenly. “You got any whiskey?”

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"You ever et a frog"?

“It was an odd thing, but true, that the death of an enemy could affect you as much almost as much as the death of a friend.”

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Great series for sure. I recall "Pea" was in the movie Vanishing Point as the long hair on the chopper who gave Barry Newman bennies at his shack in the desert. Read he died of cancer.

Lonesome Dove is far and away my all time favorite movie. Open Range is pretty close though.

It really is a great movie (ok...mini-series).
In fact, I think it's actually better than the book, and that is a rare thing.

It's perfectly cast and I never get tired of it.

"If you want to think something, why don't you think that roof back on the barn?"

Look for Pea Eye in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid where he appears as "News" Carver who gets shot by the posse because he won't leave the money.

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He was also really good as a two gun trick shooter travelling around the west going to shooting matches with Sam Elliott in the obscure “Wild Times”. this was a very realistic western also with Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., and tons of others.

Anyone wearing a chamber pot on their head might as well come along.

Gus talking to Lippy.

but may not be the exact quote.

I’ve had the VHS set since before DVDs came out. I used to drag it out and watch it once a year; I haven’t had anything to play them tapes in a few years now though


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Recall Gus mentioning getting the "poke" a couple times. LOL

“As you can see we still don’t.... put up with dawdlin’ service.”

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Not a Gus quote, but a story about Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry. He came to our local community college for a writing seminar and gave a presentation open to the public.

During the questions portion, someone asked him about winning the Pulitzer Prize. He replied: "I was in a town in East Texas, doing this same kind of seminar at the junior college. When I arrived at the Holiday Inn, the sign in front said 'Welcome Larry McMurtry - Author Terms of Endearment.' I was resting in my room and received a phone call telling me Lonesome Dove had won. Shortly thereafter, I got a call from a local reporter asking if she could come and interview me. I agreed, and noticed as I walked out to meet her that the sign had been changed. It now read "Meatloaf Special $4.99." So that's what it was like to win the Pulitzer."