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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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