If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDon’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf 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 MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMost people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAny society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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