July 21 Quotes

65 quotes in this collection

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The radical invention of the mind is the only true thing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not going to be a hero. I'm going to be a writer."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You must be prepared to work always without applause."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every man should have a hobby."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"One cat just leads to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?"

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every day above ground is a good day."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

-- Ernest Hemingway
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