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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes about Friendship
W. Somerset Maugham Friendship Quotes

Please enjoy these W. Somerset Maugham quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.

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

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer PHOTO

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Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash

Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor

Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay

Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell

True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death

I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields

I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.
- Anonymous

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen

Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman

All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams

Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous


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