More Quotes by John Steinbeck
The human is the only guilty animal.
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.
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.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
