What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. — 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
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — 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
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. — 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 destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — 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
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza… — 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 so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
