Quote

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Lines
Write
Doe
Readers
Writing
Million
Expect
Reader
Line
Millions

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The aim of living is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe