“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” — Ernest Hemingway
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Never mistake motion for action.” — Ernest Hemingway
“To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” — Ernest Hemingway
“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.” — Ernest Hemingway
“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.” — Ernest Hemingway
“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” — Ernest Hemingway
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated” — Ernest Hemingway