Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that the >>

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the cons >>

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does t >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

No wise man ever wished to be younger. >>

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblan >>

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. >>

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 amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset