Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Pearl S. Buck
American Novelist
Born: Jun 26, 1892
Died: Mar 6, 1973
Am Hope Life Man Men Work
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. Pearl S. Buck
Good Prevail Struggle People Evil Good People Men Country Cease Any Then Vigilance
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. Pearl S. Buck
People Fear Old Young Society Cares Our Way Members Possible Must Civilization Make Test Them Old People Helpless Deserted Right
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl S. Buck
You Yourself Feelings Something Spite Feel Make Cannot Your Right
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. Pearl S. Buck
Evil Darkest Those Shadow Only Colored Allow Feel Over Least Go Effects Race Race Prejudice Us Prejudice Who
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck
You Age Judge Pain Contact Idea Feel New Come New Idea Your Amount
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck
Love Good Change Marriage Way Good Marriage Individuals Which Express Growth
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
Life Death Hope Starve Indeed Idealism Empty Without Just
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck
Beautiful Heart Joy Mind Free Only Done Whole Serve
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck
Alone Thoughts Heart Human Being Mind Will Own Live Other Tries Finds Echoes Only Inspiration He Another Answer Does His Hears Person Human Being Succeed Who Away Shrinks
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl S. Buck
Work You Wait Mind Nothing Down Moods Must Know Got Accomplish Get Your
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. Pearl S. Buck
Love Mom Together Kiss Some Kissing Most Mothers Scold Same Just
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck
Work Joy Word Enjoy Secret One Word Something Excellence Contained Know Well How The Secret Of
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. Pearl S. Buck
Hope Freedom Free Power Those Terrible Understand None Always Been Who Fascinating
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck
Life Our Way Fails Child American Us American Way
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. Pearl S. Buck
Before Neglect Neglected Born He Begins Child Wanted Planned Therefore
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. Pearl S. Buck
Strength Religion Too Late Better Try Before Too Other Late Ourselves Moral Had Know Dead Discover Sources May Set
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. Pearl S. Buck
Strength Fool Wife Gun Husband Power Bitterest Only His Discovers Hands Bravado Bravery Heaven Uniform Who Creature Her
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. Pearl S. Buck
People Nothing Destroy Relentless No-One Survivors Chinese Chinese People
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. Pearl S. Buck
Education Home Needs Man Woman World Aim Out Outside Should
I am mentally bifocal. Pearl S. Buck
Mentally Am
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Pearl S. Buck
Heart Blame Out Bestowed Freeze Praise Much Season
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck
Life Good Man Woman Marriage Nothing Minds True Between Itself
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. Pearl S. Buck
Life Old Think Earth Angels Absorb Like Am Wonder Heaven Cannot Confucius
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. Pearl S. Buck
Work Man Woman Grass Out Educated Turned
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. Pearl S. Buck
Wise Words Inevitable Borne Only Without Inescapable Chinese Many Therefore
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. Pearl S. Buck
Men Free Starving Would Rather Fed Than Bonds
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