Truth Be Known

Old Vaquero Sayings

“Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.”

Quotes

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.” -Black Elk

“Belladonna, n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English, a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.” -Ambrose Bierce

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people;
people not characters. A character is a caricature.” -Ernest Hemingway

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” –Victor Hugo

“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Florence Nightingale

“Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.” –Winslow Homer

“I never saw a woman to come into one of our mining camps in California but her mere presence effected a change in the conduct of all the men there.” -Leland Stanford

“Always seein’ ‘wayoff dreams of silver-blue,
Always feelin’ thorns that slab and sting.
Yet stampedin’ never made a dream come true,
So I ride around myself and sing.”

–Badger Clark, Sun and Saddle Leather, Including
Grass Grown Trails and New Poems

“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” –Theodore Roosevelt

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