W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Friendship, Time

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

• When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Learning, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Time, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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