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12346 quotesThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotations
W. Somerset Maugham
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
The future
W. Somerset Maugham
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Beauty
W. Somerset Maugham
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Misfortunes
W. Somerset Maugham
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
Friends and Friendship
W. Somerset Maugham
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Resignation
W. Somerset Maugham
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Weakness
Francois Mauriac
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Happiness
Daphne Du Maurier
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Marriage
Andre Maurois
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Marriage
Andre Maurois
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
Business
Andre Maurois
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation
Andre Maurois
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Age and Aging
Andre Maurois
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
Literature
Andre Maurois
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Infidelity
Andre Maurois
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Originality
Andre Maurois
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Argument
Andre Maurois
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
Leaders and Leadership
Andre Maurois
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Fiction
Andre Maurois
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Wit
Andre Maurois
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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.
Justice
Roman Maxim
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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Anger
Samurai Maxim
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Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
Food and Eating
Tyrius Maximus
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Laughter
Elsa Maxwell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun