Gertrude Stein

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. ”

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ”

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ”

There is no such thing as being good to your wife. ”

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. ”

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ”

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. ”

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. ”

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. ”

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”