Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. Johann Georg Zimmermann More Quotes by Johann Georg Zimmermann More Quotes From Johann Georg Zimmermann 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 Zimmermann Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. Johann Georg Zimmermann Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. Johann Georg Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. Johann Georg Zimmermann short better moral long Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Johann Georg Zimmermann imitations comedians