Owen Wister Quotes

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...