409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Mais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Questo è il motivo per cui mi sono tagliata i capelli. Volevo venderli per comperarmi un libro. Allora avevo paura di dirtelo, ecco perché ti parlai di orecchini. Ma è un libro, che voglio.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.