I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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