Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!

Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!

There are occasions ... when all consolation is base and it is a duty to despair.

Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Good! A method can be used without physicians, gold, or magic,
Go out into the open field
and start to dig and cultivate;
keep your body and your spirit
in a humble and restricted sphere, sustain yourself by simple fare,
live with your herd and spread your own manure
on land from which you reap your nourishment.
Believe me, that's the best procedure
to keep your youth for eighty years or more.

Gut! Ein Mittel, ohne Geld
Und Arzt und Zauberei zu haben:
Begib dich gleich hinaus aufs Feld,
Fang an zu hacken und zu graben,
Erhalte dich und deinen Sinn
In einem ganz beschraunken Kreise, Ernauhre dich mit ungemischter Speise,
Leb Mit dem Vieh als Vieh, and acht es nicht fur Raub,
Den Acker, den du erntest, selbst zu dungen;
Das ist das beste Mittel, glaub,
Auf achtzig Jahr dich zu verjungenl

Fair I was also, and that was my ruin.

Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.

Whoever intends to have the right, if but his tongue be clever,<br

Wer Recht behalten will und hat nur eine Zunge,<br

A true German can't stand the French,<br