somerset maugham

To compensate for the limitless stupidity of Zuleyka's quote,
here are some gems from author Somerset Maugham.

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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

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.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

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.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.