Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suffering, Idlers, Leisure

  8 Copy quote

• The sluggard is a living insensible.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Indolence, Insensible

  4 Copy quote

• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Way, Sin

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reality, Abuse, Favors

  5 Copy quote

• An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, Imagination, Heaven

  4 Copy quote

• Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Money, Balance, Quality

  8 Copy quote

• The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Physicians, Purses, Patient

  4 Copy quote

• It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Would Be, Poverty

  4 Copy quote

• Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Doctors, May, Fancy

  4 Copy quote

• When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Book, Ideas

  5 Copy quote

• When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Too Late, News, Neighbor

  4 Copy quote

• When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Philosopher, Expected

  4 Copy quote

• Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Triumph, Troops, March

  4 Copy quote

• Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Love, Heart, Eye

  7 Copy quote

• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Comedian, Actors

  8 Copy quote

• Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suicide, World, May

  8 Copy quote

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

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Solitude, Fit

  4 Copy quote

• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Passion, Loss, Gambling

  7 Copy quote

• A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Long, Lessons, Moral

  8 Copy quote

Page 3 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin