black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes