Gertrude Stein

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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.

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.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.