"I have a rotten habit of picturing..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.”

“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”

“You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”

“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”

“Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.”

“Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.”

“Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"”

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”