#ill

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#comfort #freedom #irony #lose #money

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #comfort #ease #freedom #ironical

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#illusion #lost #those #who #youth

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#create #down #hill #his #liberation

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bored #distress #misfortune #quickly #recital

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#about #changes #direct #direct proportion #honest

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#before #does #fulfilling #hear #heard

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#dearly #germany #hope #i #i love

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#cemetery #mental #put #still #walking