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
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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.
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.