Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Download Open image ““The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“It would be nice if a single swat made the fly think: 'Whoa. I'm not flying THERE again. But it doesn't. He keeps coming… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
“If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“Flies are annoying by nature and their behavior will never change; we can only keep them away. We should do the same with toxic… — Rodolfo Peon Copy Share Image
“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
