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Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Age

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  • 2. I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
  • 3. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery who gets older and older still playing opposite young ladies but it doesn't work the other way around.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Big dress cocktails party – I love that. It is my work but my work allow me to have glamour to wear beautiful and amazing dresses to go to big ceremonies.
  • 2. It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
  • 3. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
  • 2. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 2. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 3. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 2. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
  • 3. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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