Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach -
Men
Quotes
5 Sourced Quotes
View all Berthold Auerbach Quotes
Source
Report...
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
Berthold Auerbach
Source
Report...
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
Berthold Auerbach
Source
Report...
Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
Berthold Auerbach
Source
Report...
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
Berthold Auerbach
Source
Report...
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
Berthold Auerbach
Quote of the day
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Ciardi
Berthold Auerbach
Born:
February 28, 1812
Died:
February 8, 1882
(aged 69)
More about Berthold Auerbach...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
