Bonanza Quotes

Curly: I'll cook the supper. How about scrambled eggs smothered in steak?
Larry: Sounds swell to me. Where are the eggs?
Curly: On top of the burro, so they'll be nice and fresh in the sun.
Larry: Yeah, we'll... get goin' before we starve here. C'mon.
Curly: Oh, fresh henfruit. Handle with care. [tosses eggs to Moe]
Curly: A sack of flour comin' down! [Tosses sack of flour down. Moe is forced to drop the eggs to catch the flour]
Larry: Ya nitwit, now you broke the eggs! [Newly hatched chicks are walking around the broken eggs]
Curly: So what? We'll have steak smothered in lamb chops... and maybe chicken on the side! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Larry: Well, you fix it, I've got some prospecting to do. Hand me down that dynamite, and be careful!
Curly: I'll handle it as if it were eggs!... I mean, I'll be careful!

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Jeb Drummond: You've got yourself an empire, ain't you Mr. Cartwright? Is it worth your boy's life? Well, is it?
Ben Cartwright: What do you want, Drummond?

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Nick Biancci: I hate violence because I was born into violence!

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[first lines] [Ben, Hoss and Charlie are attending a funeral]
Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright: It's a doggone shame, ain't it, Charlie.
Charlie: Yep, sure is. Doc said she had pneumonia. By the time he got there, wasn't much he could do 'cept call the sheriff.
Ben Cartwright: Well, didn't anyone know she was sick?
Charlie: [indicating young Billy] First they knew was him riding all the way in to fetch the doc by himself.

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[last lines]
Adam Cartwright: Pa, you think Joe and I enjoyed doin' it? There was no other way.
Ben Cartwright: Oh, I know you meant well. Maybe there was no other way. Hoss is the only one that can decide that. [Hoss comes down the steps of the ranch house]
Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright: Well, you fellas gonna sit here and mope all day or you gonna go out and go to work with me?

TV Show: Bonanza