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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

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. – Franz Grillparzer

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thankful
Author
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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Franz Grillparzer
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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Franz Grillparzer
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
category

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

Category:
Ridicule

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

Category:
Ridicule

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

Category:
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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Time

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I dont have a lot of sympathy for because Im just going to be with them too long. – Richard Russo

Category:
Sympathy

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

Category:
Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. – Gary Becker

Category:
alone