Men Quotes by John Steinbeck

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

— John Steinbeck

A man without words is a man without thought.

— John Steinbeck

But a man needs company.

— John Steinbeck

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

— John Steinbeck

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

— John Steinbeck

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

— John Steinbeck

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

— John Steinbeck

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

— John Steinbeck

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that…

— John Steinbeck

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

— John Steinbeck

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural…

— John Steinbeck

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads…

— John Steinbeck

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I…

— John Steinbeck

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half…

— John Steinbeck

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and…

— John Steinbeck

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of…

— John Steinbeck

It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always…

— John Steinbeck

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print…

— John Steinbeck

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,…

— John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything…

— John Steinbeck

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If…

— John Steinbeck

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a…

— John Steinbeck

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls…

— John Steinbeck

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was…

— John Steinbeck

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for…

— John Steinbeck

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only…

— John Steinbeck

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and…

— John Steinbeck

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy…

— John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly…

— John Steinbeck

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

— John Steinbeck

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

— John Steinbeck

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

— John Steinbeck

“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.”

— John Steinbeck

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

— John Steinbeck