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• 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.
• The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• 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...
• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
  He lives by makebelieve. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938...
• 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...
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
  W. Somerset Maugham...
• Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...