It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. – John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. – William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods a