Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea Quotes

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish, ” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.