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Thing Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
- The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
- 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.
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
- 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…
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,…
- What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that…
- A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- 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…
- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to…
- 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…
- The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
- 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…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
- For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on…
- Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when…
- 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…
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