“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in… — 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… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They could get it," Doc said. "They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In town in a whorehouse. That’s where your money’s goin’. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They was this rich fella, an he makes like he’s poor, an they’s this rich girl, an she purtends like she’s poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I am treasonable enough not to believe in the liberty of a man or a group to exploit, torment, or slaughter other… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I come from a whole goddam family of inventors," said Will. "We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in that,” said Will. “Farmers don’t make any money. It’s the man who buys from him and sells. You’ll… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did… — 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