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Makes Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
- When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms…
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- 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.
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine