Only an idiot, you know, presses a quarrel, when the other man has a knife pressed against his middle.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Big Trail (1930) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:41:56 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I know who you are now, and I know why you quit the Cimarron country too.

- Oh, well. No necessity to have quarrels among friends.

- Friends? You threw too wide a loop. Remember this, the three of you... I'm not your friend.

- Yeah. Well, you let him scare you stiff.

- Not at all.

- Only an idiot, you know, presses a quarrel, when the other man has a knife pressed against his middle.

- Yeah. Good excuse.

- Wolf pelts, eh?

- What does that mean?

- Don't mean nothin'.

[...]