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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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Courage,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Courage

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. The surest sign of age is loneliness.
  • 2. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy crazy crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age ' which is kind of what I did.
  • 3. I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Lorne finally said Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
  • 2. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
  • 3. It's amazing how over time a person's perspective can be altered.

3 Anger

  • 1. There are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot.
  • 2. Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.
  • 3. Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work – though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.
  • 2. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
  • 3. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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