A Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

William Shakespeare

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Jean Giraudoux

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Ava Gardner

So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

Tim Gunn

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

Danny Pino

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

Michael Strahan

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

William Shakespeare

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

Chris Rose

Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.

Benjamin Graham

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

George Saintsbury

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

We should never hesitate to use military force, and I will not, as president, in order to keep the American people safe. But we have to use our military wisely. And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq.

Barack Obama

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

J. K. Rowling

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