More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Never mistake motion for action.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
