Marriage Quote by John Steinbeck

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

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

— John Steinbeck

“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.”

— John Steinbeck

“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

“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

“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

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

— John Steinbeck

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

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

“Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?”

— John Steinbeck

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

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

— John Steinbeck