Ernest Hemingway

"The things of the night cannot be explained in the day."

"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast."

"Talking harmed no one that I ever knew."

"Humility is a great quality of a lineage."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"Paris is a moveable feast."

"A person with courage and faith will overcome any obstacle."

"True nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

"Laziness and poverty are cousins."

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you."

"Writers are made, not born."

"The hardest thing to do is to write truly about how a man feels."

"Time is the least thing we have."

"The world is a fine place, but the people in it are mostly fools."

"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."

"You have to be tough with yourself."

"Nothing is wrong with anything. Only with me."

"The man who writes about himself without rebelling against himself is no artist."

"Wealth is a sacred trust."

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"I have loved badly and I have loved well."

"A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow books."

"You write until you come to a place where you still have juice."

"Fear of not existing drives a man to do many things."

"The discipline of the writer is to learn to write as well as he can and to mean something that he says so that it can be believed."

"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"There are a few things in this world that are worse than having a man in the house who is there only by courtesy."