"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." ― W. Somerset Maugham Topic(s): Love More From W. Somerset Maugham "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it." "It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent." "Only a mediocre person is always at his best." More In Love "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."― Friedrich Schiller "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."― Anna Louise Strong "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."― Zelda Fitzgerald