Time, Because It Is So Fleeting, Time, Because It Is Beyond Recall, Is The Most Precious Of Human Goods And To Squander It Is The Most Delicate Form Of Dissipation In Which Man Can Indulge.

Time, Because It Is So Fleeting, Time, Because It Is Beyond Recall, Is The Most Precious Of Human Goods And To Squander It Is The Most Delicate Form Of Dissipation In Which Man Can Indulge.

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is
the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form
of dissipation in which man can indulge.
-- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), "The Bum"

Related:

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle...
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham...
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle...
The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
-- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham...
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
-- Wallace Sayre...