Haywood Holbrook Quotes in Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Parson: Ye godless jaspers! Who are ya? Freemasons? Rosicrucians? Heathen emissaries from the depths of Babylon? Boozers! Gluttons! Gamblers! Fornicators!

Steve Bull: Whassa fornicator?

Haywood Holbrook: I dunno. I ain't a religious man.

Haywood Holbrook: Dearly beloved. We have gathered together to grant this man, Ben Rumson, exclusive title to this woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Woodling, and to all her mineral resources. I have drawn up this Record of Claim which here and henceforth will be recognized as a certificate of marriage. So I ask you Ben, do you recognize this claim as a contract of marriage and do you take this woman to love honor and cherish?

Pardner: [after long silence] Oh, he does.

Haywood Holbrook: Elizabeth Woodling, do you take this man, Ben Rumson, to love, honor and obey him until death do you part.

Pardner: She does.

Haywood Holbrook: I now pronounce you claimed and filed as Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rumson.