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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Beauty Quotes

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Beauty Quotes

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Consistency Quotes

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Habit and Tradition Quotes

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Food Quotes

Dinner, a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Food Quotes

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Illusion Quotes

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Imagination Quotes

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Men and Women Quotes

Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Money Quotes

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Religion Quotes

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Simplicity Quotes

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

- W. Somerset Maugham | This Moment Quotes

Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Creating Positive Change Quotes

We do not write as we want but as we can.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Right Quotes

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Realistic Expectations Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Success Quotes

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Beginnings Quotes

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Companionship Quotes

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Passion Quotes

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Heartbreak Quotes

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

- W. Somerset Maugham | Life Quotes