"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
― W. Somerset Maugham
Topic(s):
Age
More From W. Somerset Maugham
- "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
- "Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it."
- "Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
More In Age
- "If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what’s important."― Clive Owen
- "But, on another level it’s really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club."― Will Estes
- "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."― Henry Miller