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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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