The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann More Quotes by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann More Quotes From Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann moral lessons long Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann comedian actors humor 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 Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann balance quality money Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann drug worship war When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann neighbor news too-late 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 health teacher retirement 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 affection hate hatred 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 gambling passion loss By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann gulls knaves knavery Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann suspicious age Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann loud advice laughing The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann weakness weak may 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 idlers leisure suffering Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann contradiction envy silence Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann physicians silence pride The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann enjoyed The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann suitors dinner time Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann insensible faculty sloth One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann solitude loneliness wish
