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Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little): 'Mornin', ma'am! And isn't it a lovely mornin'?' Old Woman: 'Up yours, nigger!' Jim 'The Waco Kid' (Gene Wilder) [consoling Bart afterwards]: 'What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny'? 'Make yourself at home'? 'Marry my daughter'? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers... these are people of the land... the common clay of the New West. You know - morons.'

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  1. Jim 'The Waco Kid' (Gene Wilder): 'My name is Jim, most people call me... Jim.'
  2. Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little): 'Excuse me while I whip this out.'
  3. Chorus: 'Hope for the best. Expect the worst. / Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.'
  4. Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little): 'Where the white women at?'
  5. Railway Worker : 'You shifty nigger! They said you was hung!' Sheriff Bart : 'And they was right!'
  6. Josephus (Gregory Hines): 'I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!'
  7. Count de Monet (Harvey Korman) [consistently mispronounced as 'money']: 'Bearnaise, do we have any of those delicious raisins left?' Bearna…
  8. Count de Monet: 'It is said that the people are revolting' King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks): 'You said it. They stink on ice.'

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