“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”
W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
1874 – 1965
English playwright and novelist, author of "Of Human Bondage".
“Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made.”
“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
“I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating.”
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: 'I don't know.'”
