A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“-Doc, spuse Fauna, am vazut de toate in viata mea. Crede-ma, daca ai ceva de doamna in tine, iti strici toata viata.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But Charley doesn’t have our problems. He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I think my sense of right and wrong, my feeling of noblesse oblige, and any thought I may have against the oppressor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“So long. Say, Mack -- what happened to your wife?' 'I don't know," said Mack. "She went away.' He walked clumsily down… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“in 50 years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“them,” he said. “The dust is warm,” said Samuel. “Now it goes this way. ‘And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“-O sa ai necazuri, spuse bacanul. -E necesar din cand in cand, zise Fauna. Ca sa te simti intr-adevar bine, trebuie sa… — 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