Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

I've learned that I don't take 'no' as an answer. I'm very competitive; I'm very prideful.

Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.