Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A world without love would be no world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe