Ashenden Maugham Quotes

#1. LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

Julian Castro

#3. He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

Rick Warren

#5. Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.
[Giulia Lazzari]

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Yesterday, I masturbated for 45 minutes ... with salad tongs.

Zach Galifianakis

#7. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

Andrew Solomon

#8. in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft.

James A. Connor

#9. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Mark Driscoll

#11. It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ...

W. Somerset Maugham