Logo
Quote by Ernest Hemingway
It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The

It wasnt 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

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
good
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Read Quote

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You dont want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Wine
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

Category:
Brevity

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Category:
Brevity

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

Category:
Brevity

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. – Dale Carnegie

Category:
Horses

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger

Category:
Miscellaneous

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. – Jim Ramstad

Category:
Time

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. – Fred Allen

Category:
funny