- Jones: Do you know why it is that a man can always beat a dog at poker.
- Young Fargo Man: No, sir.
- Jones: A dog gets a good hand, he always wags his tail.
- Boone: One time in Denver, I ate in this restaurant. It had a big sign on the wall: "Watch your hat and coat". While I was watching them someone stole my steak...
- Indio: I have something very important to tell you. I have just learned that the federales have put a price on my head. Ten pesos! Yes, that's right! Ten stinking pesos! I don't know about you, but this makes me very angry. There is a bandit from Durango who has not robbed and killed near as many innocent people as I have... and the price on his head is 10,000 pesos!
- Lieutenant: What does it mean?
- Cross: Apache.
- Boone: Is that all?
- Cross: That's enough! Let's get out of here!
- Boone: You and me, we got as much chance of growing old as this train does getting safe across Mexico.