- Rafe Blanton: You forgot somethin' - our hardware! You never can tell when you may have to kill a snake...
- [looks at Sheriff Sikes]
- Rafe Blanton: ...or some other varmint.
- Lucy Hanks: Harold, I heard that the Blanton brothers are not to be trifled with.
- Sheriff Harold Sikes: Lucy, I don't aim to trifle. I can back up my words with bullets, if necessary.
- Grandpa Andrew Hanks: How are things in the undertakers' business?
- Clarence O'Day: Quiet. You meet a lot of people, but there's no one to talk to.
- [Grandpa unsuccessfully attempts to teach Sheriff Sikes to shoot his pistol accurately]
- Grandpa Andrew Hanks: Those are the safest bottles in the county. Don't poke at it, boy, aim it!