Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

'We only have two things to worry about...... One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann