"You're the same dumb pilgrim that I been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!"

"Sure, sure, I got a fine horse under me!"

"Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!"

"Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me."

"He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him."

"You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!"

"I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do..."


      ~ all from Jeremiah Johnson, one of my favourite movies (if not THE favourite)