- Rowdy Yates: Well, well.
- Crystal Simpson: That's right, cowboy, we've already met.
- Rowdy Yates: Wasn't 3,000 head of beeves enough or do you want to pick my pockets too?
- Elwood P. Gilroy: [in the town of Dry Lick] Now look here, I'm the Sherrif of this town. You can't arrest the Sherrif, you'd get 20 years.
- Rowdy Yates: Would that be before or after your funeral?
- Judge Thaddeus Fillmore: STOP lathering up for a speech! I still got two hangings to settle this afternoon.
- Crystal Simpson: Pleasure? Why that lop-eared overgrown bushy-tailed cowboy, what does he think he is?
- Wishbone: What I got to say ain't fit for a court of law. You townfolk think you got some kind of privilege to step on us drovers. We've been swindled and shortchanged and fast-talked in every town to San Antonio. Well, I don't know very much about the Law, but I do know that's our herd, and we got a thousand miles of saddle sores to prove it.
- [the jury and the townspeople in the courtroom all laugh heartily]
- Wishbone: $40 on the hoof at the railhead.
- Elwood P. Gilroy: $40 per cow?
- Wishbone: You don't think we're gonna give them away, do you?
- Elwood P. Gilroy: No, of course not. There were a substantial number of them as I recall.
- Wishbone: Just about 3,000 head of them to be exact.
- Elwood P. Gilroy: 3,000?
- Crystal Simpson: That skunk promised me everything but the Moon tied up with pure Texan rainbows if I'd run off with him. Huh, fancy clothes, money, jewellery with real gold in it. Well, maybe I made a mistake. But when you're walking barefoot behind your Daddy's plough wearing a handstitched muslim dress, then words can sound like the end of the rainbow.
- Elwood P. Gilroy: You see, Miss Simpson and I were passing your encampment when misfortune befell one of our horses. We were hoping that maybe we could purchase a replacement from you.
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, I might.
- Elwood P. Gilroy: Splendid, splendid. Shall we say $10?
- Rowdy Yates: Let's say fifteen and you hitch it up right now.
- Crystal Simpson: NOW? It's the middle of the night!
- Rowdy Yates: It's also the middle of a cattle drive, lady. Now there's a town only two miles south of here. The hotel there is cheap, real cheap.
- Elwood P. Gilroy: As a matter of fact we do have an early engagement which precludes a more lengthy visit. That was $15, you said?
- Crystal Simpson: If you think I'm going tiptoeing through the tulips on the say so of this no good so and so, you're very much mistaken.
- Rowdy Yates: The price goes up a dollar a minute, and I got all night to stand here.