I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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