Quotes by Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

It is very easy to love alone.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

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.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.