John Steinbeck Famous Quotes
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."
I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck Quotations
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
Samuel Johnson
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate
They can do all because they think they can.
Virgil
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
Kahlil Gibran
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
Mark Twain
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
Joseph Heller
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
Ziggy
"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."
Peter Farquharson
"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
William Blake
"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."
Alexander Hodge