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Ernest Hemingway: top 300 quotes
205 definitions
Fear (n.) is a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies.
Fear (n.) is a child's vice, enjoyable, but not for grown men, for whom the only thing to be afraid of is the presence of true and imminent danger.
Wine (n.) is a grand thing which makes you forget all the bad.
Wine (n.) is the most civilized thing in the world.
Wine (n.) is all the more enjoyable for a person with increasing knowledge and sensory education.
Wine (n.) is snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult, but as natural as eating and as necessary.
Wine (n.) offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
Wine (n.) is one of the most civilized things in the world -- a most natural thing of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection -- offering a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Wine (n.) is that from which a person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment.
Wine (n.) is, when good, sometimes too good for toast-drinking. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
Wine (n.) is never a waste of time. You're only regret in life should be that you did not drink more wine.
Wine (n.) is as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
Intelligence (n.) is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
Fishing (n.) is all about the challenge. Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
Retirement (n.) is the ugliest word in the language.
Retirement (n.) is the filthiest word in the language, for to retire from what makes you what you are is to back up into the grave.
Retirement (n.) is the filthiest word in the language, for it suggests the worst death imaginable, the loss of the center of one's being, and whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what one does and makes one what one is - is to back up into the grave.
Perspective (n.) is a late comer. Thus, you should never write about a place until you are away from it.
Switzerland (n.) is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Dessert (n.) is eaten only by those who are clearly not drinking enough.
Defense (n.) is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.