It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Ernest Hemingway
Tag: Quote of the Day
27FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
Ernest Hemingway
26FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
25FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
24FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
However you make your living is where your talent lies.
Ernest Hemingway
23FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
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.
Ernest Hemingway
22FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked.
‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’
Ernest Hemingway
21FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,
And stars to set; but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
The Hour of Death (1824)
Felicia Hemans
20FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.
Sir Arthur Helps
19FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
Sir Arthur Helps