When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
