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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Marriage

Authors

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

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
  • 2. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
  • 3. I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

2 Amazing

  • 1. So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
  • 2. Well when you're the youngest of five parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life but by the time I came around they were like 'Well let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
  • 3. If Martin Scorsese calls I am available. And then there the ones well you can just run down the list – any of those Oscar-nominated films they have amazing directors across the board.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 2. I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me that was fascinating.
  • 3. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.
  • 3. Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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