Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 8

Nothing is menial where there is love.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I am mentally bifocal.

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

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.