W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I softened in my old age.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

love at any age takes everything you've got.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.