A Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Catalog Nothing Read Sooner Than Timetable Would

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W. Somerset Maugham
British - Novelist
January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

W. Somerset Maugham

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

E. B. White

There's nothing worse than coming home to a room that looks like a catalog.

Jeremiah Brent

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

Anne Askew

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

Jean de la Bruyere

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

George R. R. Martin

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

J. C. Ryle

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

Neal A. Maxwell

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Herman Cain

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

John Scarne

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.