Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Gertrude Stein Quotes

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested...

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you...

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the...

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a...

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a...