Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I like whiskey and I like vodka, too. And beer.

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

We got everythin' we need here. We got Baileys, creamy, and, um... everythin' good. I'll get ya another Baileys

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

No brothers shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine, or Cider.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

A liquor for drinking is made of barley or other grain, and fermented into a certain resemblance to wine.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

At times like this, adults need a drink

My nerves could use a drink.

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.