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Sense Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
- The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables…
- Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
- ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
- I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual…
- I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
- Have common sense and stick to the point.
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.…
- Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by…
- I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
- The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
- Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
- It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack…
- Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
- You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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