Famous Quotes

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

W. Somerset Maugham on Newyears

More quotes about Newyears

• "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Newyears

• "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

  Helen Keller on Newyears

• "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

  William Shakespeare on Newyears

• "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

  Mark Twain on Newyears

• "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."

  James Agate on Newyears

More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

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

• "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."

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

• "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 one of anger."

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."