Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
Experience is only half of experience.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.