Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons Quotes

#1. A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Christina Stead

#2. In the arts there are many right answers.

Jerry Uelsmann

#3. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.

Pyreglide

#4. You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.

Gertrude Stein

#6. A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged.

Gertrude Stein

#7. If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.

Gertrude Stein

#8. I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#9. When the whistle blows, I'm completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.

Tim Howard

#10. New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

E.B. White