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22.Donotprepare–begin.
Time is always accelerating.
With every passing season,
ayearisalwaysasmaller
percentage of your life.
- Money spent on education
is the one investment that will
always show a huge proi t.
- ‘A lifetime is a l ash of lightening
in the sky’
- Always treat your
parents as if they are close
friends who are soon to
move to a distant land from
where it will be impossible
ever to return. Never take
them for granted, no matter
how busy life gets.
You can’t imagine your
mother and father dying.
And then they do.
13.
‘Learn
to live
with
what
you
can’t
rise
above’
- If you and your father have
loud, shouty arguments, then
this is completely natural
- but you should make every
ef ort at reconciliation. h e
time that fathers and sons
have together is limited. h e
tears you shed at your father’s
funeral should be tears of loss
and grief, not of bitter regret.
- Do not become
a father until you
are prepared to
put another
human being
before yourself.
- Try not to walk past
someone selling h e Big
Issue without buying a copy.
It’s not a charity. It’s a job.
- If you and your
woman have loud
arguments, then you
are with the wrong
woman.
- For as long as possible,
keep the weight of , the hair
on and the cock hard. h is
is the holy trinity of eternal
youth. Technolog y can help
- look at Wayne Rooney or
Hugh Hefner. But resist
anything that makes you
look like a 65-year-old
dinner lady.
- Nobody knows the full
story of a marriage. Not even
the husband and wife.
- The best cure for jet
lag is sunshine. The best
cure for a hangover is the
Back Doctor – Coca-Cola
(regular, not diet). The
best cure for diarrhoea
is live yoghurt. The best
cure for a broken heart
is another trip to the
moon on gossamer wings.
h ere will be one night in your life when you
turn up for a black tie event in a lounge suit.
And there will be another time you are
instructed to wear a lounge suit but you arrive
in black tie. We all mess it up sometimes.
When it happens, you just have to butch it out.
- Once you
are past 30,
get regular
medicals. An
unexpectedly good
calcium score on
your arteries will
mean as much as an
unexpected blow
job did when you
were 17.
