Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 6

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and…

— John Steinbeck

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our…

— John Steinbeck

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well…

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under…

— John Steinbeck

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that…

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

But a man needs company.

— John Steinbeck

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old…

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

— 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

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

— 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