Lonely Are the Brave

Jerri Bonds:
Believe you me, if it didn't take men to make babies I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you!

Jerri Bonds:
Maybe you'd be better off if they caught you.

Jack Burns:
Maybe, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible.

Jack Burns:
I didn't want a house. I didn't want all those pots and pans. I didn't want anything but you. It's God's own blessing I didn't get you.

Jerri Bonds:
Why?

Jack Burns:
'Cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him. A guy like that, he'd kill a woman like you. Because he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved.

Jack Burns:
Time we took off, too.

Sheriff Morey Johnson:
I think we're chasing a ghost... an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.

Jerry Bondi:
Jack, I'm going to tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist. Maybe it never did... out there in the real world. And it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And you either go by the rules or you lose. You lose everything.

Jack Burns:
You can always keep something.

Jerry Bondi:
Jack, what are you going to do?

Jack Burns:
Well, about every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetends you breath and tones up your skin.

Jack Burns:
Yeah, but basically, you're still an Easterner.

Jerry Bondi:
What are you talking about, Jack?

Jack Burns:
Oh, it's easy to understand. A westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them.

Jerry Bondi:
I've never heard such nonsense in my life.

Jack Burns:
It's true though. Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead! Do you know what I mean?

Paul Bondi:
What happened to your face?

Jack Burns:
Oh, a bunch of guys, I ran into down at the saloon gave it a new look. I guess they didn't like the old one.

Jack Burns:
Take it easy. Temper like that and one of these days you'll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on and no place to go but hell.

Rev. Hoskins:
Ah, the temptations of the flesh. I fought 'em my whole life through.

Prisoner:
Then how come you're in here

Prisoner:
, Reverend?

Rev. Hoskins:
Well, I said I fought 'em, I didn't say I fought 'em off. Sometimes I lost. But believe me, it takes a lot more to tempt a preacher than it does you stumblebums in here. When I lost, I lost big!

Prisoner:
Are you a real preacher, Reverend?

Rev. Hoskins:
Well now, let's look at it this way. I always had the urge to preach. And if you got the urge, you're halfway home.

Prisoner:
What kept you from getting all the way?

Rev. Hoskins:
My temptation was women.

Water Matthau, as he awoke his sleeping deputy, William Shallert, during a stakeout.

WM:
"Got any gum?"

The deputy searches all pockets in his jacket then replied,

"Uh, no. I don't have any gum. I don't use gum."

WM "Then stop looking for it!"