Friendship When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham 28
be the best It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham 26
Success The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the... W. Somerset Maugham 25
Change If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? W. Somerset Maugham 30
Lose If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it... W. Somerset Maugham 29
Death Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham 34
Anger The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is... W. Somerset Maugham 29
