thx Brain , i also found it by mistake while reading about him .Originally Posted by Brian Bean
thx Brain , i also found it by mistake while reading about him .
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
Well I am pleased to see another Maugham fan on the forum,they seem to be an endangered species on this particular website. Apart from Of Human Bondage which, admittedly, is his best novel, he seldom gets a mention, despite having written such wonderful works as The Razors Edge and The Moon and Sixpence; not to mention some of the best short stories ever written. Considering his wonderful ability to tell a story without wallowing in turgid intellectuality, and his perfectly believable plots and varied characters, it is a mystery why so little mention is made of him.Brian Bean, just so you know, I love your icon. W. Somerset Maugham is my absolute favorite author.
Anyway, here's a quote I love by Tom Stoppard: "'It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
My favorite quote is "as God is my witness, I shall never be hungry again". I love it because it shows that all people have remorse and troubles, not just the not-so-fortunate. (Gone With The Wind).
My favorite quotation?
"None is so poor that he needs sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness."
~Henry Thoreau, Walden
I like this passage because every time in think about Thoreau trying to save a dime by sitting on a rotting old pumpkin instead of, say, a chair, I do this:
here are some quotes.. i have not looked at everything but you all seem to be serious.. tis not bad but youall need some laughter in life.. i can be seruious at times but i choose to be silly an goof off.. i have a few quotes if not many... so here they are..
"im not laughing at you.. im laughing with you"- never knew where it came from
"life is just a chance to grow a soul"- a. powell davis
"because i have loved life.. i shall have no sorrow to die"- amelia burr
those are three off the top of my head but i will post some more later if i find time.. give comments if you like.. i have a many more but most of them silly an high school..
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well the best one I can think of right now off the top of my head is:
"You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, from To Kill A Mockingbird
I was pretty young when I read it and it kinda stuck with me till today.. it's a great way to put things into perspective!
"Suspense on the quicksands of ambivalence is our life's whole nemisis" Sylvia Plath
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. josh billings
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The ones we deam crazy are just in a state of always dreaming. At least they'll never lose grasp of their's. ryan carroll
Beyond the clouds, my mind wanders in the stars.
It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all...
Tennyson.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Who can name that one... it's one of my favorites... only in its own context, of course.
"The reasonable man adapts to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
They call me the Unreasonable Man at work... even though I'm a woman.
Whats your fav quote?
I normally like short quotes, but the one below is my new favorite:
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant minister in Nazi Germany, in 1945; from "Political Quotations", Daniel B. Baker, ed.
If God lived on Earth, people would break his windows.
ALOHA - Salutations - CIAO - Venlig Hilsen - SALUT -Med Hilsener - SHALOM - Freundliche GruBe - SALUDOS Salutations - SAYONARA - Be Seeing You!
'I am half sick of shadows' (pretty sure that's the last line of The Lady of Shallot)
My all-time fave quote is from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte:
"I've dreampt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
One of my favourites is from Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia:
"Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier"
This roughly translates to:
"I shall be an autocrat: that is my job. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his."
Basically my philosophy is life...
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
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