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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

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
  • 2. I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now when I have more time I function the same way: if it's writing time I write.
  • 3. In this age of media and Internet access we are much more talkative than ever before.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
  • 2. The body is an amazing machine… If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
  • 3. I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

3 Anger

  • 1. All who consult on doubtful matters should be void of hatred friendship anger and pity.
  • 2. As the plane got closer to Miami I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger panic despair and helplessness.
  • 3. Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 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. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 2. In my experience if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg it's modern architecture.
  • 3. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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