Pearl S. Buck Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I am mentally bifocal.”

“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.”

“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.”

“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”

“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”

“Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.”

“Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.”

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”

“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”