- Bart Maverick: Well, my old Pappy used to say, "Son, it's fine to turn over a new leaf, but there's always somebody trying to snoop through the old pages."
- Bart Maverick: You know sending that gold in a buckboard is a harebrained scheme... and Deacon Eaker doesn't even carry a gun.
- Marybelle McCall: Well, you do. Don't you know how to use it?
- Bart Maverick: Well, yes, but generally when I start shooting at something, it has a nasty habit of shooting back.
- Bart Maverick: Sheriff, I've met men that I've respected and liked, and men that I've liked but didn't respect, and men that I didn't like, but had respect for. There's one other combination that just about sums up my feelings for you.
- [first lines]
- Guard: Be an interesting fracas if Clay Corey tries to jump this train.
- Guard: It'll be more interesting for him than for us. We got more guns than Fort Wichita.
- Guard: Well, me, I hope he tries it. He's had easy pickin' so far with only one guard on each train.
- Guard: Say, you reckon they're putting guards on all the trains?
- Guard: Till Corey gets nabbed, they are.
- Bart Maverick: My old Pappy mentioned the game of life once, but, uh, he said, "Most of us, by the time we're up on the rules are, generally, too old to play it."
- [last lines]
- [the Conductor, who threw Bart of a train earlier for not buying a ticket, sees Bart on the train and proceeds to throw him off again]
- Bart Maverick: Hey, you can't do this to me. I've got a ticket.
- Conductor: Oh, yeah?