63 Quotes by Johann Georg Zimmermann

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

The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.