if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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