Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1706-1790. American inventor, philosopher, diplomat and statesman. Inventor of lightning-rod.
1. "You may delay, but Time will not."
Categories: Time and Passing
2. "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Categories: Richness and Money
3. "Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."
Categories: Loyalty and Betrayal
4. "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."
Categories: Defeates and Mistakes
5. "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Categories: Various
6. "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Law and Crime
7. "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
Categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
8. "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires."
Categories: Health and Alcohol
9. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love
10. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Categories: Egoism
11. "Half the Truth is often a great Lie."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
12. "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee."
Categories: Health and Alcohol
13. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Categories: Talent and Genius -:- Education
14. "Death takes no bribes."
Categories: Life and Death
15. "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
Categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age
16. "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
Categories: Anger
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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