Famous Quotes

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."

W. Somerset Maugham on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

• "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

• "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."

• "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

• "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."