Men Quotes by John Steinbeck

But a man needs company.

— John Steinbeck

A man without words is a man without thought.

— John Steinbeck

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

— John Steinbeck

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

— John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

— John Steinbeck

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

— John Steinbeck

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

— John Steinbeck

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

— John Steinbeck

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

— John Steinbeck

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

— John Steinbeck

“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ”

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

— John Steinbeck

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must…

— John Steinbeck

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.…

— John Steinbeck

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

— John Steinbeck

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and…

— John Steinbeck

“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men…

— John Steinbeck

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of…

— John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

— John Steinbeck

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a…

— John Steinbeck

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how…

— John Steinbeck

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him…

— John Steinbeck

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For…

— John Steinbeck

“The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains…

— John Steinbeck

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will…

— John Steinbeck

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not…

— John Steinbeck

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get…

— John Steinbeck

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…

— John Steinbeck

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been…

— John Steinbeck

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in…

— John Steinbeck

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're…

— John Steinbeck

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist…

— John Steinbeck

“I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and…

— John Steinbeck

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

— John Steinbeck

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

— John Steinbeck

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

— John Steinbeck

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

— John Steinbeck