Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
love heart happy-valentines-day
In women everything is heart, even the head.
flattery praise easy
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
wine men age
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
rain flower fall
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
sky sun silent
A sky full of silent suns.
beauty party literature
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
memories loss men
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
birthday time winter
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
men literature firsts
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
giving literature pleasure
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
poverty literature loved-ones
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
reality men literature
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
jesus hands age
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
laughter light laughing
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.