Josh's favorite quotes

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

33 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness

738 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

406 people liked it

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

148 people liked it

"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: atheism, inspirational

116 people liked it

"Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: dogs, stuffed-animals

29 people liked it

"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: love

30 people liked it

"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: fact, legend-

16 people liked it

"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

17 people liked it

"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
— Ernest Hemingway

12 people liked it

" Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Clean Well Lighted Place)

5 people liked it

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is herd no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and furry signafying nothing."
— William Shakespeare

2 people liked it

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: alcohol, classic-insult, drunk

178 people liked it

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.'"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: classic-insult

113 people liked it

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue

88 people liked it

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

63 people liked it

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
— Winston S. Churchill

57 people liked it

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: poor, rich

52 people liked it

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselssly into the past."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: book, inspirational

268 people liked it

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

51 people liked it

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western

33 people liked it

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

tags: war

24 people liked it

"Men of God and men of war have strange affinities."
— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

13 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom

9,511 people liked it

""Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.""
— David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest: A Novel)

16 people liked it

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