"A thin line separates love from hate, success from failure, life from death. A line as difficult to walk as a razor's edge." ~William Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge"
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." ~W. Somerset Maugham
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"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 are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens." -from OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other." ~William Somerset Maugham
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it." ~W. Somerset Maugham from "The Treasure"
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." ~William Somerset Maugham
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." ~William Somerset Maugham
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"The important thing was to love rather than be loved." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned." ~William Somerset Maugham
"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." ~Somerset Maugham
"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Writing is the supreme solace." ~William Somerset Maugham
"From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." ~W. Somerset Maugham
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"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 are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens." -from OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other." ~William Somerset Maugham
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it." ~W. Somerset Maugham from "The Treasure"
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." ~William Somerset Maugham
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." ~William Somerset Maugham
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"The important thing was to love rather than be loved." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned." ~William Somerset Maugham
"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." ~W. Somerset Maugham
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." ~Somerset Maugham
"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
"Writing is the supreme solace." ~William Somerset Maugham
"You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer." ~W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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