Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
![“Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b19/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_achieve_love-grants-in-a-moment-what-toil-can-ha_3046273.jpg)
![“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2a3/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_age_age-childish-makes-they-say-but-tis-not_1851271.jpg)
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