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
If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
We must be young to do great things.
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.