To be a successful father… theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon. – John Aubrey