Zimmermann Quotes
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician.
(1728 - 1795)
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A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
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All our distinctions are accidental. - Beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise or censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached importance.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much by gaudy attire.
[Beauty]
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Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
[Beauty]
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By fools knaves fatten; every knave finds a gull.
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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
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Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats. - The first always imposes on itself; the second frequently deceives others.
[Conceit]
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Dissipation is absolutely a labor when the round of Vanity fair has been once made; but fashion makes us think lightly of the toil, and we describe the circle as mechanically as a horse in a mill.
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Egotism is more like an offence than a crime, though 'tis allowable to speak of yourself provided nothing is advanced in your own favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
[Egotism]
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Fools with bookish knowledge, are children with edged weapons, they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. - The half-leamed is more dangerous than the simpleton.
[Fools]
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Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants and their nearest relatives.
[Gambling]
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Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflection, and self-distrust the first proof we give of having obtained a knowledge of ourselves.
[Humility]
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If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.
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Ignorance, poverty, and vanity make many soldiers.
[Soldier]
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In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
[Fame]
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It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented, could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
[Poverty]
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Laws act after crimes have been committed; prevention goes before them both.
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
[Poverty]
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