#thin

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

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #ecstasy #hunger #like #nothing

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #good #good things #life #things

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing. ↗

— Diana Ross

#change #changes #does #i #i think

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#always #expediency #most #principle #sacrificed

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#divisible #equally #exist #extent #full

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#complicated #educators #make #simple #something

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil. ↗

— Brian May

#alive #answer #any #fossil #i

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#come #going #i #keep #keep going

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper. ↗