Gertrude Stein

“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.”

“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.”

“We are always the same age inside.”

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”

“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.”

“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”

“It is very easy to love alone.”

“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”

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

“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”

“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.”

“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”