176 Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.