“Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.” Quote by Franz Grillparzer
“In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountrySeemsTogetherCertainThreeAnimalIntelligentStupidityAssQuantityIntelligent Person Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.” DoePleaseGoodnessGood Things Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.” WorldLeftDifficultThis WorldAchievementProfoundSimplicityDifficult Things Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.” HeartMadeBodyFunWillingSexualityFleshPromiscuity Author:Franz Grillparzer
“In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.” ArtClumsiness Author:Franz Grillparzer
“You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?” HumansDoeMatterDifferencesHuman BeingsJudgingComplainingPowerlessnessDoes It MatterMake The Best Of It Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.” ThinkingKindFeelingsFormDivinePoetReaderPlot Author:Franz Grillparzer
“They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.” NeedsMayLordGrievingNobilityDonateAustria Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?” MenChildrenHas BeensSaidParentPowerfulSonFlowParents Love Author:Augustus Hare
“Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.” BitsSpeedSlow DownEagerness Author:Franz Grillparzer