Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
• The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
• There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
• What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
• When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
• Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
• Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.