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Men Quotes by John Steinbeck
- A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
- All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
- A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good…
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
- In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,…
- Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
- When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,…
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
- The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be…
- The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
- You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of…
- Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
- The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he…
- A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
- I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
- Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected…
- Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who…
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he…
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was…
- Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
- One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
- I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing…
- Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
- A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
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