Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
Patriotism ruins history.
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.