I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
Idleness is the root of all art
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.