"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Ability, Wit

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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Ability, Taxes

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing

"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

Ability, Body

"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

Ability, Difference, Man

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Ability, Guitar, Play

"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Ability, Job

"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Ability, Education, Natural, Glory

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

Stendhal, French Writer

Ability, First

"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

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Explore more quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"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."

Comfort

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

Rules

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

Life

"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous."

Life

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

Age

"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."

Life

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

Marriage

"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."

People

"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."

Work

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

Happiness