Next time you fellas strike it rich, holler for me, will you, before you start splashing water around. Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

— Howard (Walter Huston)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:16.513 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Look, it's all over here. I think we've found a... What do you call it?

- A mother lode.

- Howard! Howard! Come on, look! Look! Here!

- Look at this rock. It's full of gold! Veins of it.

- That wouldn't pay your dinner for a carload.

- It ain't gold?

- Pyrites. Fool's gold.

- Oh, not that there ain't plenty of the real stuff hereabouts. We've walked over it 4 or 5 times.

- That place yesterday looked like rich diggings, but the water for washing the sand was 11 miles away... too far. And the other places... well, there wasn't enough gold to pay us a good day's wages.

- Next time you fellas strike it rich, holler for me, will you, before you start splashing water around. Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

- Norther, looks like.

- A norther? What's a norther?

- Big winds from the north this time of year. When they blow hard, this desert country stands right up on its hind legs.

- Reckon there's only a few more miles of this heavy stuff. Pretty soon we'll be out of this valley.

- Hey, you fellas, how about some beans? Want some beans? Going through some mighty rough country tomorrow. You better have some beans.

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Next time you fellas strike it rich, holler for me, will you, before you start splashing water around. Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

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