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. – Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesnt make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. – Gertrude Stein
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. – Gertrude Stein
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – Gertrude Stein
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”