black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Discover Easy Know Late Say Until

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
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
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Boundless Intoxicate Space
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
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Art Enough Life Long Love
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue
When 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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beautiful Essence Unity Variety

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes