1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.