It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car…

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Bicycles Quotes, Biking Quotes

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep...

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep...

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when...

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when...

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then...

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have...

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have...

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life...

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life...

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness,...

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness,...

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by...

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

My uncle out in Texas Can't even write his name He signs his checks with...

My uncle out in Texas Can't even write his name He signs his checks with...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he...

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...