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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. You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
  • 2. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  • 3. It is not well to make great changes in old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
  • 2. I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
  • 3. Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.

3 Anger

  • 1. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
  • 2. Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom because you're on the front lines.
  • 3. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What's fascinating about D.C. the exteriors are these elaborate structures this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework and then you go inside and it's crap-looking – apart from the White House which is beautiful.
  • 2. If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
  • 3. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
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