The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds soon choke up an unused path.
Tell your friend a lie -- and if he keeps it a secret, tell him the truth.
If you marry a young woman, make sure your friends stay outside.
Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.
I am a beast until I love as God doth love.
Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
