- Paladin: Your gun won't help you now, Pappy. For, as birds are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time.
- Paladin: What are you trying to do? See how much pain you can take?
- Pappy French: Aw, I ain't afraid of a little pain.
- Pappy French: Paladin, would you laugh if I asked you to say some words for me? Not that I'm asking for any favours, you understand. I'd just like to hear how you might say it.
- Pappy French: Now you're a card. I like you. You got a sense of humour. Heck, you don't mind me asking. What's your particular line of endeavour?
- [And Paladin hands over his card]
- Pappy French: Well, I guess I've had enough of it. A man's a fool to stay behind his time.
- Paladin: Surely you've never seen yourself as passing that stage.
- Pappy French: I've had 40 years of it. Not a slice nor scar or bullet hole. Never spent a day behind bars. Pappy French sensed that he was never the man to let another man get the best of him.
- Paladin: Well, that's a very impressive statement, Pappy. What have you got to show for it?