Beifall / Applause Hälfte / Half Hört / Hears Lachen / Laughter Torheit / Folly Vergeblich / Vain Weisheit / Wisdom
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Rich folks always talk hard times.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.