“Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs maybe graduated thus: Just below the shoulder… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
