Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.Collection: Art
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.Collection: Gardening
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.Collection: Religion
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.Collection: Alone
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.Collection: Money
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.Collection: Teacher
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.Collection: Money
We are always the same age inside.Collection: Age
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.Collection: Money
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.Collection: Space
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.Collection: Patience
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.Collection: Funny
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.Collection: Science
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.Collection: History
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.Collection: Politics
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.Collection: Poetry
History takes time. History makes memory.Collection: History
Very likely education does not make very much difference.Collection: Education
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Collection: Religion
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.Collection: Family
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.Collection: War
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.Collection: Business
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.Collection: Funny
It is very easy to love alone.Collection: Love
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.Collection: Failure
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.Collection: Friendship
Romance is everything.Collection: Romantic
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.Collection: Dad
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.Collection: History
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.Collection: Technology
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.Collection: Funny
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
There is no there there.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
A diary means yes indeed.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Remarks are not literature.
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.