"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