Мысль о том, что в моём возрасте Моцарт уже год как умер, очень отрезвляет.
It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media.
Don't solicit for your sister, that's not nice,
Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.