- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [Watches Carlos sign the registrar at the inn] Carlos. That is that your first name, Señor?
- Carlos Murrietta: No, Sargeant. That is the name of my horse. He is a very uneducated horse. Cannot read or write. Therefore, I must sign the registrar for him at the inn where he is a guest.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Amazing, Don Rodolfo! It seems only yesterday that you were playing caballeros and bandidos with the other children, running around the pueblo and shouting like a bunch of wild Indians, riding imaginary horses and shooting your wooden guns with incredible accuracy!
- Rodolfo Martinez: That life is behind me, Sargeant!
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Ah, si. And it will be years before you regret leaving it. Welcome, Don Rodolfo, to a man's position in life and a man's responsibilities.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You do not want to be known as a live coward, eh?
- Rodolfo Martinez: There are things worse than dying, Don Diego.
- Don Diego de la Vega: But there is nothing quite so permanent, my friend.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [singing to young Don Rodolfo, who's in love with waitress Maria] Young man, here's a friendly reminder, though this be the face you adore. You must realise at the age of eighteen, there are lots of surprises in store. Quién sabe, who knows what you fate will be? For the gardens are full of the loveliest flowers, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
- Maria Crespo: Si, si!
- Don Diego de la Vega: Young man, though you're certain you love her, without her you'd rather be dead. Recall that just eighteen short years lie behind and a great many more lie ahead. Quién sabe, who knows what you fate will be? For the gardens are full of the loveliest flowers, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
- Maria Crespo: Si, si!
- Don Diego de la Vega: Young man, when you look in your mirror to shave the soft down from your cheek. Say this to yourself: 'Many times will I shave, ere I find the true love that I seek.' Quién sabe, who knows what you fate will be? For the gardens are full of the loveliest flowers, there are plenty of fish in the sea. Quién sabe, who knows what you fate will be? For the gardens are full of the loveliest flowers, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
- Maria Crespo: Si, si!