Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

It doesn't seem to occur to men that woman might be a worthwhile end in herself, or to see to it that she has a proper sexual release. And, to him, sex appeal is directly proportional to the immensity of a woman's tits.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.