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.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham

Topics: Chance Quotes, Change Quotes, Love Quotes, Mankind Quotes

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is...

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is...

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

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have...

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have...

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life...

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life...

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so...

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so...

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The...

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The...

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the...

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the...

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Seeing quotes and thinking, oh thank god im not the only one!

Seeing quotes and thinking, oh thank god im not the only one!

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses