“A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Qué va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you." "Thank you. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a stone for the knife,” the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I wish the boy was here,' he said aloud and settled himself against the rounded planks of the bow and felt the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
![“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/33d/ernest-hemingway-83_old-man_then-there-is-the-other-secret-there-isn_2113368.jpg)
