Quote #15482
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country,...
Quote #17492
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Quote #1491
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
Quote #13641
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing...
Quote #18353
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Quote #1230
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Quote #30796
Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
Quote #21978
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Quote #1722
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for...
Quote #14563
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.