1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.