Explore more quotes by Ernest Hemingway

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."

Wealth,

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

War, Country, Dying, Nothing

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

Beauty, May

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."

Man,

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

Happiness, People, Day, Spring

"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."

Family, Father, Successful, First, Years

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

Friendship, Friend

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."

Life, May, Writer

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

Man, Men, Care, Hunting

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."

Creativity, Drilling

Exlpore more Defeat quotes

"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."

Paul Brown, American Coach

Defeat,

"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

Steven Brust, American Author

Defeat, End, Reason, Struggle

"There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence."

Cesar Chavez, American Activist

Defeat,

"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

Lydia M. Child, American Activist

Defeat,

"We don't defeat evil by becoming evil."

Nick Clooney, American Politician

Defeat, Evil

"We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis."

Nick Clooney, American Politician

Defeat,

"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

Francis Marion Crawford, American Writer

Defeat,

"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."

Stafford Cripps, British Politician

Defeat, Evil, Nations, Suffering

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Josephus Daniels, American Politician

Defeat, Man

"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."

Thelma Drake, American Politician

Defeat, Enemy