Life Quotes

Laugh while you've got the chance, you won't laugh much when you are dead and buried.

W. Somerset Maugham

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Walter Mosley

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

Wayne L. Misner

Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter...

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Wes Moore

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.

W. Somerset Maugham

What you remember saves you.

W.S. Merwin

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

Walter de La Mare

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Acton has magic, power and grace.

W.H. Murray

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Wynton Marsalis

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Wynton Marsalis

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby al...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

W. Somerset Maugham

You are going to get over it sooner or later so get over it now.

William James Moore

We keep asking where they have gone those years we remember and we reach for them like hands in the night

W.S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

W.S. Merwin