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Quote by Franz Grillparzer
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. - Fra

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

Other quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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Franz Grillparzer
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry
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Franz Grillparzer
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. – Franz Grillparzer

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Trust
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Franz Grillparzer
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
category

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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Ridicule

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

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Ridicule

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain

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Ridicule

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. – Martin Tupper

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Ridicule

Random Quotes

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. – Henry Jackson Vandyke,Jr.

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Fire

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. – Henry Louis Mencken

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Cows

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. – Shelley Long

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Trust