Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
