More Quotes by John Steinbeck
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
