63 Quotes by Johann Georg Zimmermann

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

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

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

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