"Let the devil catch you but by a……" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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37 Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has 37 quotes on this site.
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we…
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Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back…
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm…
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he…
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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More Catch Quotes
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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