Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.