“A wife is like a children’s movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete” ― John Steinbeck

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.” – John Steinbeck

“All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.” – John Steinbeck

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.” – John Steinbeck