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Once Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
- One lives but once in the world.
- We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor…
- How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what…
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom…
- There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
- A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
- It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
- Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
- Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
- 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…
- From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
- Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
- Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
- The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
- If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile.…
- Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A…
- Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a…
- I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
- Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
- And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
- Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins