Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe | |
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." -- Goethe | |
If I love you, what business is it of yours? -- Johann van Goethe | |
Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer, and Goethe is moethe. | |
What we do not understand we do not possess. -- Goethe | |
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green. -- Goethe | |
Euch ist bekannt, was wir beduerfen; Wir wollen stark Getraenke schluerfen. -- Goethe, "Faust" | |
A pretty foot is one of the greatest gifts of nature... please send me your last pair of shoes, already worn out in dancing... so I can have something of yours to press against my heart. -- Goethe | |
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. -- Goethe | |
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness. -- Goethe | |
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. -- Goethe | |
Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Goethe | |
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |