Gertrude Stein

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening.

The human mind - if it is a human mind - has not even the habit of being the human — no of course not.

As Pablo once remarked, when you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after after you they don't have to worry about making it and they can make it pretty and so everybody can like it when the others make it.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.