Wyatt Earp Quotes in Tombstone (1993)

Curly Bill: [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.

Ike Clanton: Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?

Wyatt Earp: I'm retired.

Curly Bill: Good. That's real good.

Ike Clanton: Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law don't go around here.

Wyatt Earp: I heard you the first time.

[flips a card]

Wyatt Earp: Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.

Curly Bill: Shut up, Ike.

Johnny Ringo: [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.

Doc Holliday: That's the rumor.

Johnny Ringo: You retired too?

Doc Holliday: Not me. I'm in my prime.

Johnny Ringo: Yeah, you look it.

Doc Holliday: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?

Kate: You don't even know him.

Doc Holliday: Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.

Wyatt Earp: [to Ringo] He's drunk.

Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.

["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]

Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.

["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]

Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.

["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."]

Johnny Ringo: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.

["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]

Doc Holliday: [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.

["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"]

Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.

Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that?

[pulls open his coat, revealing a badge]

Wyatt Earp: It says United States Marshal!

Ike Clanton: [terrified, pleading] Wyatt, please, I...

Wyatt Earp: [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up!

[shoves Ike down roughly with his boot]

Wyatt Earp: The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it!

[lets Ike up to run for his life]

Wyatt Earp: So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'!

[shouts]

Wyatt Earp: You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...

[louder]

Wyatt Earp: Hell's coming with me!

Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?

Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

Wyatt Earp: What does he need?

Doc Holliday: Revenge.

Wyatt Earp: For what?

Doc Holliday: Bein' born.

Wyatt Earp: [Tyler reaches for his gun] Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!

Johnny Tyler: [stammers, scared] Listen, mister, I - I'm - I'm - I'm gettin' awful tired of your...

Wyatt Earp: [slaps Tyler across the face, unafraid] I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work!

Wyatt Earp: [slaps him harder, now completely steely-eyed] I said throw down, boy!

Johnny Ringo: [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt] Well,I didn't think ya had it in you.

Doc Holliday: I'm your huckleberry.

[Ringo is startled that it's Holliday and not Wyatt]

Doc Holliday: Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

Johnny Ringo: Fight's not with you, Holliday.

Doc Holliday: I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?

Johnny Ringo: I was just foolin' about.

Doc Holliday: I wasn't. And this time...

[opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]

Doc Holliday: ... it's legal.

Johnny Ringo: All right, lunger. Let's do it.

Doc Holliday: [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking] Say when.

Doc Holliday: [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls] Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.

[Holliday places the badge on Ringo's corpse]

Doc Holliday: [Holliday hears running footsteps and turns to see Wyatt Earp approaching] I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.

Wyatt Earp: Good God.

[knells to examine Ringo and picks up the badge]

Doc Holliday: My hypocrisy goes only so far.

Wyatt Earp: All right. Let's finish it.

Doc Holliday: Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals

Doc Holliday: What did you ever want?

Wyatt Earp: Just to live a normal life.

Doc Holliday: There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.

Wyatt Earp: Don't know how.

Doc Holliday: Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty from it, don't look back. Live every second. Live right on to the end. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend - if ya ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please.

Wyatt Earp: Thanks for always being there, Doc.

[Wyatt Earp has just found out that the devil in a play was performed by a woman]

Wyatt Earp: Well, I'll be damned.

Doc Holliday: You may indeed, if you get lucky.

Wyatt Earp: How are you?

Doc Holliday: I'm dying, how are you?

Wyatt Earp: From now on I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur. And tell the other curs the law is coming. You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!

Wyatt Earp: How many cards do you want?

Doc Holliday: I don't want to play any more.

Wyatt Earp: How many?

Doc Holliday: Damn it, you're the most fallible, stubborn, self-deluded, bullheaded man I've ever known in my entire life.

Wyatt Earp: I call.

[looks at Doc's cards]

Wyatt Earp: You win.

Doc Holliday: You're the only human being in my entire life that ever gave me hope...

Doc Holliday: It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Wyatt Earp: Doc you're not a hypocrite, you just like to sound like one.

Wyatt Earp: You gonna do somethin' or just stand there and bleed?

Wyatt Earp: Sheriff Behan, have you met Doc Holliday?

Doc Holliday: Piss on you, Wyatt.

Wyatt Earp: [to Ike Clanton] You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?

Frank Stillwell: [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station] That's Virgil there with the women.

Ike Clanton: He's mine, understand?

Frank Stillwell: [Cocking his rifle] Hey Mattie! Where's Wyatt?

Wyatt Earp: Right behind you, Stillwell.

[Shoots Stillwell as he turns around]

Wyatt Earp: Fight's commenced! Get to fightin' or get away!

Johnny Tyler: Well, for a man that don't go heeled, you run your mouth kinda reckless, don't you?

Wyatt Earp: No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.

Wyatt Earp: How we feelin' today, Doc?

Doc Holliday: I'm dying. How are you?

Wyatt Earp: Pretty much the same.

Wyatt Earp: I did my duty, now I'd like to get on with my life. I'm going to Tombstone.

Crawley Dake: Ah, I see. To strike it rich. Well, all right, that's fine. Tell you one thing, though... I never saw a rich man who didn't wind up with a guilty conscience.

Wyatt Earp: Already got a guilty conscience. Might as well have the money, too. Good day, now.

Wyatt Earp: In all that time workin' those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shootin', just one! But a man lost his life and I took it! You don't know how that feels, and believe me boy, you don't ever want to know. Not ever!

Wyatt Earp: I don't think I'll let you arrest us today, Behan.

Morgan Earp: It said that a lot of people, when they die, they see this light. Like in a tunnel. They say it's the light leadin' you to heaven.

Wyatt Earp: Really? Well, what about hell? They got a sign there or what?

Wyatt Earp: [Before the shootout at the OK Corral] "It's not your problem, Doc, you don't have to mix up in this."

Doc Holliday: [Offeneded] "That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me."

Wyatt Earp: I just want you to know it's over between us.

Curly Bill: Well... bye.

Johnny Ringo: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.

Josephine: I'm a woman, I like men. If that means I'm not "lady-like", then I guess I'm just not a lady! At least I'm honest.

Wyatt Earp: You're different. No arguin' that. But you're a lady alright. I'd take my oath on it.

Wyatt Earp: I spent my whole life not knowing what I want out of it, just chasing my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want and who... that's the damnable misery of it.

Wyatt Earp: You could have been busted up back there, or killed.

Josephine Marcus: Fun, though, wasn't it?

Wyatt Earp: You'd die for fun?

Josephine Marcus: Wouldn't you?

Sheriff John Behan: You are all under arrest.

Wyatt Earp: I don't think I'm going to allow you to arrest us today, Behan.

Wyatt Earp: You're the only person I can afford to loose to any more. How we feelin' today doc?

Doc Holliday: I'm dyin', how are you?

Wyatt Earp: Pretty much the same.

Wyatt Earp: [to Josephine Marcus] I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don't even know how we'll make a living, but I promise I'll love you the rest of your life

[they kiss]

Wyatt Earp: [Vigil has agreed to become Tombstone's town marshall, upsetting Wyatt] What in the hell are you doin'? I told you we weren't gettin' involved!

Virgil Earp: You got us involved when you brought us here.

Wyatt Earp: Now you hold on a minute, Virg!

Virgil Earp: Hold on nothin'! I walk around this town and look these people in the eyes. It's just like someone's slappin' me in the face! These people are afraid to walk down the street, and I'm tryin' to make money off that like some goddamn vulture! If we're gonna have a future in this town, it's gotta have some law and order!

Wyatt Earp: Don't do this to me!

Virgil Earp: It's got nothin' to do with you! It's got to do wi...

Wyatt Earp: Nothin' to do with me? I'm your brother, for Christ's sake! God, I don't believe this!

[to Morgan]

Wyatt Earp: Talk to him, will you? Or hit him!

[Morgan sheepishly shows Wyatt his deputy badge under his coat]

Wyatt Earp: Ah, God, don't tell me!

Morgan Earp: Like you said, Wyatt, we're brothers. Gotta back your brother's play. Just did like I figured you would.

Wyatt Earp: Okay, fine. Say you're right, say you don't get yourself killed. There's somethin' else. All those years I worked those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shootin', just one. But a man lost his life, and I took it. You don't know how that feels, Morg. Believe me, boy, you don't ever wanna know. Not ever.

Wyatt Earp: How the hell did we get ourselves into this?

Lin McAdam: Awful lot of law for a little cowtown.

Wyatt Earp: This is the kind of cowtown that needs a lot of law.

Wyatt Earp: That's Dutch Henry Brown. I thought you said you didn't know him.

Lin McAdam: I said I didn't recall the name.

Wyatt Earp: Pick out a name and write it down.

Lin McAdam: All right if I use my own name?

Wyatt Earp: Some folks do.

Lin McAdam: Yeah... some folks do.

Wyatt Earp: You been a good friend to me, Doc.

Doc Holliday: Shut up.

Wyatt Earp: You'd be doing me a favor if you called me Wyatt or Earp, but not both.

Wyatt Earp: What's wrong with you?

Doc Holliday: What is wrong with me? What have you got? I am dying of tuberculosis. I sleep with the nastiest whore in Kansas. Everyone who knows me hates me, and every morning I wake up surprised that I have to spend another day in this piss-hole world. (To onlookers) All you can kiss my rebel dick!

Wyatt Earp: Not everyone who knows you hates you, Doc.

Doc Holliday: I know it's not always easy being my friend, but I'll be there when you need me.

Doc Holliday: Wyatt, you ever wonder why we been a part of so many unfortunate incidents, yet we're still walking around? I have figured it out. It's nothing much, just luck. And you know why it's nothing much Wyatt? Because it doesn't matter much whether we are here today or not. I wake up every morning looking in the face of Death, and you know what? He ain't half bad. I think the secret old Mr. Death is holding is that it's better for some of us over on the other side. I know it can't be any worse for me. Maybe that's the place for your Maddie. For some people, this world ain't ever gonna be right.

[Wyatt takes his first drink for many years]

Wyatt Earp: Is that supposed to let me off the hook?

Doc Holliday: There is no hook my friend. There's only what we do.

Wyatt Earp: Mister, I've been in a really bad mood for the last few years, so I'd appreciate it if you'd just leave me alone.

Wyatt Earp: [Firing shotgun in air, blocking advancing Clemmens Crew] I'm Wyatt Earp!

Cowboy #1: Who the fuck is Wyatt Earp?

Cowboy #2: Just some asshole, I expect.

Morgan Earp: [after striking Cowboy #2 over head with his pistol] He's the asshole who enforces the law!

Doc Holliday: Do you believe in friendship, Wyatt Earp?

Wyatt Earp: [nods head silently]

Doc Holliday: So do I. Do you have many friends?

Wyatt Earp: [shakes head 'no' silently]

Doc Holliday: Neither do I.

[indicates Shanssey]

Doc Holliday: John here has been a good friend to me when many others would not. *Dave Rutabagh* is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions, but... self-control always got the better of me.

[takes a slug of whiskey]

Doc Holliday: Besides, I'm a sporting man. I'm not a killer.

[goes into a coughing fit]

Bessie Earp: We are your wives. Don't we ever count more than the damn brothers?

Wyatt Earp: No, Bessie, you don't. Wives come and go, that's the plain truth of it. They run off. They die.

[Just before the confrontation at the OK Corral]

Clem Hafford: Is there gonna be a fight, Wyatt?

Wyatt Earp: I think there must be.

Doc Holliday: What do you want to do?

Wyatt Earp: Kill them all.

Frank Stillwell: No-o-o-o...!

Wyatt Earp: [shoots him] ... yes!

Wyatt Earp: [immediately after returning to Dodge City] My name's Wyatt Earp... it all ends *now*!

Wyatt Earp: Mac, you ever been in love?

Mac: No, I've been a bartender all me life.

[last lines]

Wyatt Earp: Ma'am, I sure like that name... Clementine.

Clementine Carter: I love your town in the morning, Marshal. The air is so clean and clear... the scent of the desert flower.

Wyatt Earp: That's me... barber.

[Chihuahua has just been seriously wounded]

Wyatt Earp: Mac, you and Buck go down and clean up the saloon. Put a couple of tables together and put some lights around 'em. Doc, you're going to operate.

Wyatt Earp: Sure is a hard town for a fella to have a quiet game o' poker in.

[At his brother's grave]

Wyatt Earp: 1864, 1882. 18 years. You didn't get much of a chance did you James? I wrote to Pa and Cory Sue. They're gonna be all busted up over it. Cory Sue's young, but Pa. I guess he'll never get over it. I'll be comin' out to see you regular James. So will Morg and Virg. I'm gonna be around here for a while. Can't tell. Maybe when we leave this country young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe.

Wyatt Earp: I've heard a lot about you, too, Doc. You left your mark around in Deadwood, Denver and places. In fact, a man could almost follow your trail goin' from graveyard to graveyard.

Doc Holliday: There's one here, too... the biggest graveyard west of the Rockies. Marshals and I usually get along much better when we understand that right away.

Wyatt Earp: Sure is rough-looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?

Old Man Clanton: Just over the rise there. Big town... called Tombstone.

[after the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt refuses to shoot Old Man Clanton]

Old Man Clanton: My boys... Ike! Sam! Phin! Billy!

Wyatt Earp: They're dead. I ain't gonna kill you. I hope you live a hundred years... so you'll feel just a little what my pa's gonna feel. Now get out of town - start wandering!

[as Wyatt is leaving the hotel after taking the marshal's job, he meets Clanton and his sons]

Wyatt Earp: I'm the fella with the trail herd, remember?

Old Man Clanton: Oh, sure, I remember you.

Wyatt Earp: You was right. I didn't get very far with 'em. They was rustled this evening.

Old Man Clanton: That so? Well, that's too bad.

[Wyatt starts out the door]

Old Man Clanton: I guess you'll be headin' for California, huh?

Wyatt Earp: No, I figured on stickin' around awhile. Got myself a job.

Old Man Clanton: Cowpunching?

Wyatt Earp: Marshalin'.

Old Man Clanton: Marshalln'? In Tombstone?

[laughs]

Old Man Clanton: Well... good luck to ya, Mister...?

Wyatt Earp: Earp. Wyatt Earp.

Doc Holliday: I see we're in opposite camps, Marshal. Draw!

[Draws gun on Wyatt Earp, bar goes quiet]

Wyatt Earp: [Pulls open his vest showing he is unarmed] Can't...

Doc Holliday: We can take care of that easily enough. Mac...!

Wyatt Earp: [Virgil Earp slides pistol to Wyatt, who picks it up and examines it] Brother Morg's gun.

[Slides gun back to Morgan, Doc turns to see Morgan pick up pistol and holster it. Doc holsters his pistol as well]

Wyatt Earp: Big one, that's Morg. The other one, that good lookin' fella, that's my brother Virg. Doc Holliday, fellas!

Morgan Earp: [Smiling] Hiya, Doc!

Virgil Earp: Howdy.

Doc Holliday: Howdy!

[Looks back at Wyatt, who smiles, then back at Morgan and Virgil]

Doc Holliday: Have a drink!

[Tension in bar breaks, music starts again]

Morgan Earp: Don't mind if I do, Doc!

[Slaps Doc on back]

Wyatt Earp: Hold up your right hand. Do you solemnly swear to uphold... oh, this is ridiculous. You're deputized. Grab some gear, I'll get the horses.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Wait a minute, don't I get to wear a tin star?

Wyatt Earp: Not on your life!

Wyatt Earp: All gunfighters are lonely. They live in fear. They die without a dime, a woman or a friend.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Want a gun hand?

Wyatt Earp: You? No, thanks.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I do handle them pretty well. The only trouble is, those best able to testify to my aim aren't around for comment.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I'm a gambler. Money's just a tool of my trade.

Wyatt Earp: Of course, you will guarantee you won't lose.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I never lose. You see, poker's played by desperate men who cherish money. I don't lose because I have nothing to lose, including my life.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: [after shooting a few antagonists] Anybody else want to try their luck?

Wyatt Earp: [Herding the arrested cowboys to jail] Get moving! - Keep moving, all of ya!

Johnny Ringo: [Holding his wounded arm] All right, Doc.

[In a threatening tone]

Johnny Ringo: We ain't finished yet!

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: You would have been, but I felt in a charitable mood tonight.

Cotton Wilson: There's $20,000 in it for you - cash!

Wyatt Earp: $20,000! The wages of sin are rising!

Cotton Wilson: $20,00 against a six foot hole in Boot Hill or a $20 a month pension - IF you live long enough to collect it.

Wyatt Earp: We'd like you to come to the wedding, Doc, - if it doesn't interfere with your poker.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I'm not good at weddings - only funerals. Deal me out.

Wyatt Earp: There's a stage for Abilene in the morning. I want you to be on it.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Can't. The marshal of Abilene sent me here.

Wyatt Earp: You can stay and you can play on one condition: no knives, no guns and no killings.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: No knives, no guns, no killings.

Wyatt Earp: That's it.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: You have my word as a gentleman.

Wyatt Earp: [to Billy Clanton] You think you're pretty tough, don't ya, son? I never knew a gunslinger yet so tough he lived to celebrate his 35th birthday. I learned one rule about gunslingers. There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man.

Wyatt Earp: Look, Holliday, as long as I'm the law here, not one of those cowpokes is going to cross that deadline with a gun. I don't care if his name *is* Shanghai Pierce.

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Well spoken. I'll repeat those words at your funeral.

Wyatt Earp: What's shakin' Twain?

Mark Twain: Hey, I'm good on anything. Just like gravy, baby. Good to see you my man.

Wyatt Earp: You too, man.

Wyatt Earp: Hey, I finally read Prince and the Pauper.

Mark Twain: Oh, is that right?

Wyatt Earp: Didn't get it.

Mark Twain: For reals?

Wyatt Earp: Satire! Boom! I got ya!

Tom Mix: I fell in love with a beautiful woman who believed a man was not a complete lover unless he knew how to tango.

Cheryl King, Owner of Candy Store: She didn't give you much choice.

Tom Mix: I took lessons for years.

Wyatt Earp: And what was this young lady's vocation?

Tom Mix: She was a tango instructor.

Wyatt Earp: Let's find out, you son of a bitch. Draw!

Captain Blackworth: My men will cut you to pieces.

Wyatt Earp: Not before I shoot out your eyes.

[They glare at each other. People move away]

Captain Blackworth: Another time.

[nods]

Cheryl King, Owner of Candy Store: Would you really have shot him?

Wyatt Earp: No.

Cheryl King, Owner of Candy Store: Why not?

Wyatt Earp: I'm not packing a gun.

Tom Mix: Wait a minute, Wyatt, there's something we gotta get sorted out here. I threatened to rope him behind my horse and drag him, then you waltz in pretty as you please and threaten to kill him. I don't like being out-threatened.

Wyatt Earp: Sorry. Won't happen again.

Wyatt Earp: It's all true, give or take a lie or two.

Tom Mix: She's a grand girl.

Wyatt Earp: She's a grand 26 year old girl. I could have done myself permanent injury.

Wyatt Earp: How come you told Cheryl where I'm staying?

Tom Mix: Because she asked. And I figured if she asked you, you'd tell her.

Cheryl King, Owner of Candy Store: Will you sleep with me?

Wyatt Earp: Cheryl, I'm old enough to be your father.

Cheryl King, Owner of Candy Store: Wyatt, you're old enough to be my grandfather. Now answer the question.

Wyatt Earp: Martha Jane Canary was a dear and selfless woman, but she looked like an unmade bed. This young lady's far to pretty.

Doc Holliday: Forgive me, mademoiselle.

Miss Plantagenet: What the hell kind of talk is that?

Wyatt Earp: Now, as I understand it, a mademoiselle is a madam who ain't quite made it yet - only younger and friskier. I'd call it a compliment.

Wyatt Earp: Say, you're the doctor around here. How come I always have to perform all the complicated operations?

Doc Holliday: You know I am a dentist, not a doctor. Wait until somebody shoot him in the teeth.

Miss Plantagenet: You thought this was the prettiest dress you ever saw. Why, you couldn't take your eyes off it.

Wyatt Earp: Well now, that was when I was ten high. Now I'm ace high.

Wyatt Earp: They're bad people, John.

Doc Holliday: Well, if it weren't for bad people, what would you do for a living, Marshal? Tell me about Tombstone. I mean, more than what you said in the letter.

Wyatt Earp: It's wide open. The sheriff here, Johnny Behan, doesn't know how to organize a town, so I'm going to run against him in the election. The sheriff has got all the power here. The marshal has got a badge and he's got some territory, but he's got no jurisdiction in the town. Gambling is heavy. There's a lot of money about town. It's wide open. So you organize the gambling - start right here. I run the law, you run the gambling. We'll both end up rich. Very rich!

Doc Holliday: We sound like bad people, Wyatt.

Wyatt Earp: We are, John.

Wyatt Earp: ...And then we clean up Tombstone.

Virgil Earp: You mean clean out Tombstone.

Clum, Editor Tombstone Epitaph: You're not going to solve anything with a gun.

Wyatt Earp: You'd be surprised the things you can solve with a gun.