Quote

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

Ernest Hemingway

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
E. M. Hemmingway
E. Hemmingway
E. Hemingway
Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Horse
Race
Ever
Morbid
Named

More quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Image
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
There are worse places to be than on your own.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
Ernest Hemingway
Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp-following eunuchs of literature.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
A bottle of wine was good company.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
Ernest Hemingway