In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
From Gerald Brenan
The cliche is dead poetry.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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