Do you love cowboys? Cowboys love riding horses and you know them for their bravery. Did you know that cowboys have a lot of quotes?
Here in this article, I have collated 45+ of funny, wise, famous, and other cowboy quotes can sayings.
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Famous Cowboy Quotes
The quotes below are from popular cowboys and Western writers of the past:
A cowboy is any man with a horse and guts – William James, Western writer
Good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself – Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The best healthy way to live in life is to learn to love all the little everyday things – like the sip of every gun makes its own tune – Blondie, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Snakes like you usually die of their own poison – Chris Morrell, ‘Neath the Arizona Skies
I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them – J.B. Books, The Shootist
The best healthy way to live in life is to learn to love all the little everyday things – like the sip of every gun makes its own tune
Blondie, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Funny Cowboy Quotes
These cowboy quotes are funny and will definitely make you smile.
Some cowboys have to much tumbleweed in their blood to settle down.- Ken Alstad
If you think bull riding’ isn’t intense, come sit on his back and try on my saddle. This aint for tenderfoots. – Clancy Jean Driscoll
No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? Unless you’re a cowboy, of course. – Paul Weller
First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you’re on your way to being a Texan. – James A. Michener
When you’re young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you’re my age, you splatter. – Roy Rogers
It’s a lot like nuts and bolts-if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts! – Nicholas Evans
Cowboys don’t get married, unless they stop being cowboys. – a
Kid, cowboying is something you do when you can’t do nothing else. – Dick Richards,Eric Bercovici
A cowboy would rather throw a bull than eat beans with his knife. – Charles Dorian
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn’t. I shoveled a lot of stalls. – Bob Weir
Wise Cowboy Quotes
The quotes below look funny, but they are full of wisdom:
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. – Winston Churchill
A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes. – Judge Roy Bean
Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride. And the end is not the end. – Richard Rowland
True cowboys are the ones who aren’t afraid to get dirty. – Lane Frost
Remove the cowboy from his working environment and you have someone else, someone who resembles a cowboy in outward appearance but who, to one degree or another, is an imposter. – John R. Erickson
If you’re going to wear a cowboy hat, you’re going to have to go all the way. You should have livestock around you, settle all of your disputes with a pistol, and ride a horse absolutely everywhere. – Tom Segura
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That’s why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. – Charles Marion Russell
A Cowboy never says goodbye, / it’s not in his nature. – Kurt Philip Behm
The cowboy no doubt can be regarded as a proud rider, skilled, observant, alert, resourceful, unyielding, daring, punctilious in a code peculiar to his occupation, and faithful to his trust. – Charles W. Harris, Buck Rainey
Now if you think the grass is greener on the far side of the hill, / All you cowboys: take it easy, there’s no grass there at all. – Chris De Burgh
Cowboy Quotes about Horses
You already know that cowboys ride horses. What do cowboy say about horses? Here are some sayings:
Ride E’m Cowboy, don’t let them throw ya down.. You can’t make no money if ya hit the ground, Ride E’m Cowboy, don’t let them throw ya down, You’re the toughest Cowboy in town. – Juice Newton
There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse. – Missy Lyons
A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse. – William James
Let him ride a horse. He’s a cowboy ain’t he. – Nathanael West
The horse is a mirror to your soul. And sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror. – Buck Brannaman
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and fire. – Shannon Ralls Lemon
Horses and life, it’s all the same to me. – Buck Brannaman
There is something about riding on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you aint worth a thing. – Will Rogers
Cowboys come in many different shapes and sizes but all cowboys must be able to ride horses. – Meg Clibbon
When a horse wants to run, there ain’t no sense in closing the gate / You can have your space, cowboy. – Kacey Musgraves, Luke Laird, Shane McAnally
Horses and life, it’s all the same to me.
Buck Brannaman
More Cowboy Quotes and Sayings
Want even more cowboy quotes? Here you go:
When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed. – Roy Rogers
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy… able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people. – Morrie Schwartz
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses. – Chris Kyle
Cowboys work hard, play well, love soft, and are a hell of alot better than any other boy I’ve ever seen. – Olivia Flannery
Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We’ll cure your cowboy ways yet. – Richard Kadrey
Where the leather is scarred, there is a great story to tell. – Jimmy Tart
Cowboys don’t go around breaking hearts. – Missy Lyons
Cowboys they are all so tough on the outside, but so sweet and soft on the inside. – Amber
I took to the life of a cowboy like a horse takes to oats. – Clinton McCoy
A cowboy is defined by the work that he does. Any man lays claim to that name if he lives on a ranch and works–drives, brands, castrates, or nutures–a cattleman’s herd. – Blake Allmendinger
The cowboy has been called America’s folk hero. – Charles W. Harris, Buck Rainey
That the cowboy is one of the most romantic figures in American history is uncontested. – Charles W. Harris, Buck Rainey
The cowboys can rest and look at the distant mountains, the fish in the creek and the setting sun. – Meg Clibbon
Which was your favorite cowboy quote?
