Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. |
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples |
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. |
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples |
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example. |
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. |
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one |
One forgives to the degree that one loves. |
One had rather malign oneself than not speak of oneself at all. |
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks |
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines |
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt. |
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. |
One may say of temper as of many buildings; it has divers aspects, some agreeable, others disagreeable. |
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned |