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Old Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
- Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
- 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…
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be…
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- It'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…
- 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.
- Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains…
- For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which…
- 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…
- Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,…
- From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
- I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
- 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…
- I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
- When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am…
- When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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