Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

The words of Jesus, as distinguishable from the matter in which they are embedded as diamonds in dunghills. A more precious morsel of ethics was never seen.