The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMImagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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