I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Men Without Women
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Men Without Women
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know
Men Without Women
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Men Without Women
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
The Old Man and the Sea
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Courage is grace under pressure.
The Old Man and the Sea
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time
Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
The Old Man and the Sea
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.
Ernest Hemingway
you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Never confuse movement with action.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Ernest Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.
Mark Twain Quotes – Page 3
Famous Mark Twain Quotes
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
Mark Twain
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
Mark Twain
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
Mark Twain
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
Mark Twain
“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
Mark Twain
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
Mark Twain
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
Mark Twain
“There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.”
Mark Twain
“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
Mark Twain
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
Mark Twain
“There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.”
Mark Twain
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Mark Twain
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Mark Twain
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
Mark Twain
“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
Mark Twain
“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
Mark Twain
“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
Mark Twain
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Mark Twain
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
Mark Twain
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
Mark Twain
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
Mark Twain
“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
Mark Twain
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
Mark Twain
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Mark Twain
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
Mark Twain
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
Mark Twain
“Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me.”
Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
Mark Twain
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
Mark Twain
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
Mark Twain
“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
Mark Twain
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
Mark Twain
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
Mark Twain
“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
Mark Twain
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
Mark Twain
“Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
Mark Twain
“Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
Mark Twain
“Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
Mark Twain
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Mark Twain
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.”
Mark Twain
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
Mark Twain
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Mark Twain
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.”
Mark Twain
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
Mark Twain
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”
Mark Twain
“Comparison is the death of joy.”
Mark Twain
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Mark Twain
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.”
Mark Twain
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”
Mark Twain
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”
Mark Twain
“Comparison is the death of joy.”
Mark Twain
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Mark Twain
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
Mark Twain
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
Mark Twain
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
Mark Twain
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
Mark Twain
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
Mark Twain
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
Mark Twain
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”
Mark Twain
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark Twain
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
Mark Twain
“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
Mark Twain
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark Twain
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
Mark Twain
“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
Mark Twain
“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
Mark Twain
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
Mark Twain
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
Mark Twain
“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
Mark Twain
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
Mark Twain
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
Mark Twain
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.”
Mark Twain
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
Mark Twain
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”
Mark Twain
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
Mark Twain
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
Mark Twain
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”
Mark Twain
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
Mark Twain
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
Mark Twain
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
Mark Twain
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said ‘Faith is believing what you
know ain’t so’.”
Mark Twain
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said ‘Faith is believing what you
know ain’t so’.”
Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Mark Twain
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal… In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh–not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
Mark Twain
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
Mark Twain
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
