No one who is young is ever going to be old.
John Steinbeck
Related
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on...
SAMUEL BECKETT To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on...
MAXWELL MALTZ Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat...
RONALD WRIGHT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired ...
EPICURUS War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY No one is ever old enough to know better
HOLBROOK JACKSON A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
JOHN STEINBECK Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already.
ANDONI GARCIA Please don't sing and dance," I whisper, but it's too late. He's snapping his fingers and doing this...
C.M. STUNICH No one is ever alone,this is falsified information appearing to be real. If God is really who he sai...
SUSIE L HILL When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for t...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves tha...
ZOE AKINS This is going to be one of the strongest teams we have ever had. Our team is young, so our future is...
JOHN FELDCAMP Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong ...
JAMES E. FAUST The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
OSCAR WILDE Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and sa...
VICKI LAWRENCE I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Final...
DEREK LANDY People always ask me, who is going to replace Eric. There is no one guy who can replace him. He will...
JUSTIN SHERWOOD There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I...
VAL KILMER No man is ever old enough to know better.
HOLBROOK JACKSON No man is ever old enough to know better.
HOLBROOK JACKSON Any date you pick, someone is going to be too young or too old. And there needs to be a finite date.
BRIGID DEVRIES Live fast and die middle-aged. Dying young is pointless and dying old means years in an old folks ho...
JOSEPH WILLIAMS Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or to...
BOBBY SANDS All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take i...
RATKO MLADIC Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without lookin...
JOHN STEINBECK He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he m...
JOSEPH ADDISON The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid...
ROBERT R. MITCHELL Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl...
EPICURUS My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th...
THOMAS STEINBECK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown o...
EPICURUS I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life expe...
UTADA HIKARU Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of...
JOY DAVIDMAN Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...
HENRY FORD To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
ALEXANDER CHASE It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Things'll get worse before they get better.
KAREN M. MCMANUS There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...
J. B. PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age. ...
J. B. (JOHN BOYNTON) PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age-...
J. B. PRIESTLY To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life.
DEYTH BANGER There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in...
DENNIS PRAGER War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.
VIKRANT PARSAI It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent ...
ED ROLLINS Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof ...
SHERRILYN KENYON As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is wh...
BERNHARD SCHLINK There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...
MORDECAI RICHLER There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN Pink makes me feel both young and old. There is no in between.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist
MARK TWAIN No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. T...
MARK TWAIN I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus...
NEIL GAIMAN A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
STEVEN BRUST No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casua...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
KIN HUBBARD There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick
KIN HUBBARD There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
In the cradle a child is screaming.
An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics,
MOHAMMED DAHLAN Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...
HENRY FORD What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of t...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
GEORGE SANTAYANA Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued un...
PLATO People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be some...
UFUOMA APOKI Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old
EPICURUS That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN At the moment Ed is the only one who does not endorse John.
BOB STEVENS So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and ...
STEVE KANALY You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable yo...
NEIL GAIMAN No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, d...
STEVE JOBS I'm not sure we will ever have the privilege of voting on a nominee who is more intelligent than Joh...
GORDON SMITH The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey th...
HARRY GOLDEN The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
More John Steinbeck
The President must be greater than anyone else, but not better than anyone else. We subject him and ...
JOHN STEINBECK How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?
JOHN STEINBECK Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we ...
JOHN STEINBECK To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. Bu...
JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi...
JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
JOHN STEINBECK This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in ...
JOHN STEINBECK Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a do...
JOHN STEINBECK Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.
JOHN STEINBECK No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi...
JOHN STEINBECK So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a ...
JOHN STEINBECK I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
JOHN STEINBECK The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more import...
JOHN STEINBECK A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When a...
JOHN STEINBECK It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness,...
JOHN STEINBECK A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering ...
JOHN STEINBECK Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tappin...
JOHN STEINBECK This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the mac...
JOHN STEINBECK Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
JOHN STEINBECK Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..
JOHN STEINBECK But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the mo...
JOHN STEINBECK Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man we...
JOHN STEINBECK Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horri...
JOHN STEINBECK Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reac...
JOHN STEINBECK I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't h...
JOHN STEINBECK As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sou...
JOHN STEINBECK They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his he...
JOHN STEINBECK I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles on their back an�...
JOHN STEINBECK Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the f...
JOHN STEINBECK Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hi...
JOHN STEINBECK A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swa...
JOHN STEINBECK Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comi...
JOHN STEINBECK Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your inter...
JOHN STEINBECK At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side win...
JOHN STEINBECK I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They...
JOHN STEINBECK I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
JOHN STEINBECK Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.
JOHN STEINBECK Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.
JOHN STEINBECK George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many tim...
JOHN STEINBECK In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you un...
JOHN STEINBECK Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in t...
JOHN STEINBECK I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.
JOHN STEINBECK We could live offa the fatta the lan'.
JOHN STEINBECK We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
JOHN STEINBECK Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobod...
JOHN STEINBECK Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
JOHN STEINBECK His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but ...
JOHN STEINBECK Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around...
JOHN STEINBECK A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no differe...
JOHN STEINBECK As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sou...
JOHN STEINBECK All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
JOHN STEINBECK There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out wh...
JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing...
JOHN STEINBECK Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th...
JOHN STEINBECK When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope s...
JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best...
JOHN STEINBECK Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the fiel...
JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that...
JOHN STEINBECK If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -...
JOHN STEINBECK The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smo...
JOHN STEINBECK The film of evening light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a...
JOHN STEINBECK I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedicati...
JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventual...
JOHN STEINBECK It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com...
JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced tha...
JOHN STEINBECK We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient met...
JOHN STEINBECK A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
JOHN STEINBECK Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be p...
JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing...
JOHN STEINBECK It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her...
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw...
JOHN STEINBECK No-one wants advice only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacce...
JOHN STEINBECK We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar...
JOHN STEINBECK Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a do...
JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convin...
JOHN STEINBECK These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well...
JOHN STEINBECK A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion...
JOHN STEINBECK Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
JOHN STEINBECK The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must ...
JOHN STEINBECK We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
JOHN STEINBECK Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we wo...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
JOHN STEINBECK The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
JOHN STEINBECK It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should reme...
JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice - only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the ...
JOHN STEINBECK One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
JOHN STEINBECK If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that...
JOHN STEINBECK Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...
JOHN STEINBECK Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bit...
JOHN STEINBECK When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...
JOHN STEINBECK Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to be...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
An all plans, safeguards, policies and coerc...
JOHN STEINBECK I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pr...
JOHN STEINBECK You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are...
JOHN STEINBECK A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a d...
JOHN STEINBECK Anything that just costs money is cheap.
JOHN STEINBECK And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen a...
JOHN STEINBECK Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made s...
JOHN STEINBECK How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President h...
JOHN STEINBECK ...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. T...
JOHN STEINBECK What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
JOHN STEINBECK He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
JOHN STEINBECK Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you....
JOHN STEINBECK The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the childr...
JOHN STEINBECK When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma...
JOHN STEINBECK Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I ...
JOHN STEINBECK I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
JOHN STEINBECK In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, bu...
JOHN STEINBECK All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice, only collaboration.
JOHN STEINBECK Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
JOHN STEINBECK Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
JOHN STEINBECK I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closel...
JOHN STEINBECK The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
JOHN STEINBECK And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
JOHN STEINBECK I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopel...
JOHN STEINBECK Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of th...
JOHN STEINBECK I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK I guess there are never enough books.
JOHN STEINBECK It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget�...
JOHN STEINBECK I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or...
JOHN STEINBECK But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a ...
JOHN STEINBECK Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, ...
JOHN STEINBECK Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
JOHN STEINBECK When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls ...
JOHN STEINBECK It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness,...
JOHN STEINBECK Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a ton...
JOHN STEINBECK In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to m...
JOHN STEINBECK A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone e...
JOHN STEINBECK ...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely ...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.
JOHN STEINBECK Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for i...
JOHN STEINBECK He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
JOHN STEINBECK If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - ...
JOHN STEINBECK Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
JOHN STEINBECK I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK All of them had a restlessness in common.
JOHN STEINBECK Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be co...
JOHN STEINBECK And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.
Because he loved true t...
JOHN STEINBECK Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that ...
JOHN STEINBECK For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be bet...
JOHN STEINBECK Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
JOHN STEINBECK Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I d...
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.
JOHN STEINBECK To the stars, on the wings of a pig.
JOHN STEINBECK The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and ou...
JOHN STEINBECK The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, dow...
JOHN STEINBECK ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit...
JOHN STEINBECK He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give ...
JOHN STEINBECK No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
JOHN STEINBECK In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
JOHN STEINBECK You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let your...
JOHN STEINBECK Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...
JOHN STEINBECK To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ...
JOHN STEINBECK Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l...
JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'...
JOHN STEINBECK When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when...
JOHN STEINBECK But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that...
JOHN STEINBECK Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are ...
JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing...
JOHN STEINBECK Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi...
JOHN STEINBECK ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, an...
JOHN STEINBECK It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
JOHN STEINBECK A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else...
JOHN STEINBECK But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thin...
JOHN STEINBECK A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
JOHN STEINBECK People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK