“The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I come from a whole goddam family of inventors," said Will. "We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I am treasonable enough not to believe in the liberty of a man or a group to exploit, torment, or slaughter other… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They could get it," Doc said. "They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in that,” said Will. “Farmers don’t make any money. It’s the man who buys from him and sells. You’ll… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They was this rich fella, an he makes like he’s poor, an they’s this rich girl, an she purtends like she’s poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Suppose it were true—Adam, the most rigidly honest man it was possible to find, living all his life on stolen money. Lee… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In town in a whorehouse. That’s where your money’s goin’. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
![“[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/50c/john-steinbeck-71_animal_man-is-the-only-animal-who-lives-outside_906371.jpg)
