Wyatt Earp Quotes

The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

Wyatt Earp

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• When I was five I had violin lessons.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Lessons
  • Had
  • VIolin

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Winner

• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

  

  John Madden
  • Humble
  • Winner
  • Losers

• History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

  

  James A. Leach
  • History
  • Lessons
  • Provide

• Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Women
  • Want
  • Winning

• Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Great
  • Body
  • Belief

• When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.

  

  Angela Davis
  • She
  • Friends
  • Lessons

• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Water
  • Poison
  • Absinthe

• It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Question
  • Lessons

• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Poison
  • Rumor

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Impossible

• It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Men
  • Long
  • Mistake

• It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Nations
  • Winner
  • Two-time

• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • Young
  • Authority

• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  

  Socrates
  • Part
  • Poison
  • Malice

• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Terror
  • Poison
  • Perish

• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  

  William Penn
  • Hands
  • Ability
  • Clean

• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Groups
  • Winner
  • Finals

• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
  • Yourself

• When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Fire
  • Looks
  • Blue

• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  

  Wyatt Earp
  • Lessons
  • Winner
  • Poison