Im not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. – Ernest Hemingway
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
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. – John Donne