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Time Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
- By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one…
- Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to…
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- 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…
- Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
- I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- 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.
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and…
- She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his…
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- 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…
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