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
men age grows
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
goodbye farewell men
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
life men delicacy
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
life men two
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
beauty men gold
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
rain men weather
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
success men literature
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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.
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.
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.
reality men literature
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
men golden purity
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
farewell men feelings
feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
men heaven enjoy
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.