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
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. — 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
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — 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
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. — 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
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — 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
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — 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
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from… — 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
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
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair;… — 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
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
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to… — 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
