Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident at Deadhorse: Part I (1964)

Burgess Meredith: Hannibal H. Plew

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• Hannibal H. Plew : Ah, you're not Henrietta

  [his mule] 

  Hannibal H. Plew : Who can answer my questions nine? Sing ninety-nine and ninety. What is whiter than milk? What is softer than silk? Snow is whiter than milk. The wind is softer than snow. What is louder than a horn? What is sharper than a thorn? Thunder's louder than a horn. And Death is sharper than a thorn.

• Hannibal H. Plew : Fear of the unknown is vagrant fantasy without visible means of support. Well, perhaps it is fear of oneself.

• Hannibal H. Plew : Gaudiamus igitur juvenes dum sumus. Post jucundam juventutem, post molest.am senectutem. Nos habebit humus. Let us rejoice and be glad,there for the young life ahead of us. Think where we'd be today if Columbus had turned away from his curiosity. If the spirit of Don Quixote had been struck down by the turn of the windmill. If Merlin believed magic was the sole device of the Devil.

• Hannibal H. Plew : Between the cradle and the grave lies but a haircut and a shave. Well, that was no miracle or cannibalistic incantation, a simple application of medical theory.

• Hannibal H. Plew : And a good card player knows precisely the right moment to rise up and go home.

• Hannibal H. Plew : An expert is one who knows more about less and less. I only know one thing. That scaffold might do for hanging laundry perhaps, but a man, never.

• Hannibal H. Plew : The territory's compensation is more than adequate, thank you. All I need from you, sir, is your age, your height and your weight.

• Hannibal H. Plew : Last night is a page that's already turned in the book of memories. It's gone, forgotten, meaningless.

  Mushy : To you maybe. But not to me. When I do something wrong, I just can't forget it.

  Hannibal H. Plew : You sound like a man who's feeling sorry for himself.

  Mushy : Somebody has to. Around here I'm just tangled foot Mushy, a clown who can't do anything right.