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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Wisdom

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. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
  • 2. Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
  • 3. Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
  • 2. My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
  • 3. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen.

3 Anger

  • 1. A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf if it's for others deserving of your anger your empathy.
  • 2. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
  • 3. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Information and inspiration are everywhere… history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
  • 2. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting something connected to the fine arts.
  • 3. I'd like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.
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