What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
Weitere Zitate von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Zum Autor"On all the peaks lies peace."
"How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!"
"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)."
"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though."