If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
W. Somerset MaughamI [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
W. Somerset MaughamThere was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
W. Somerset Maugham