Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Needs
Thanksgiving
Insignificant
Thankful
Host
Drink
Seems
Need
Important
Thankfulness
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Franz Grillparzer
Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
Franz Grillparzer
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Franz Grillparzer
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer
Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz Grillparzer
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz Grillparzer
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz Grillparzer
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Franz Grillparzer
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
Franz Grillparzer
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
Franz Grillparzer
