Ernest Hemingway

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.