Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Father! Whom I do not know! Father! who filled all my soul and who has now turned His countenance away from me! Call me to You! Be silent no longer! Your silence will not stay this thirsting soul—and could a person, a father, be angry whose son, unexpectedly returning, threw himself on his neck and cried: Father! I have come… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“My father gave my stature tall, And rule of life decorous; My mother my nature genial And joy in making stories; Full… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I thank you, Wilhelm, for your heartfelt sympathy, for your well-intentioned advice, but beg you to be quiet. Let me stick it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — 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
