Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann famous quotes

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Hate #Hatred #Affection

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

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Envy #Silence #Contradiction

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Pride #Silence #Physicians

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Knavery #Gulls #Knaves

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

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Long #Lessons #Moral

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Humor #Comedian #Actors

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

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Heart #Eye #Suffering

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Money #Balance #Quality

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#War #Drug #Worship

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

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.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Retirement #Sight #Important

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Weakness #May #Weak