Ebner-eschenbach Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy reading and share 100 famous quotes about Ebner-eschenbach with everyone.
Top Ebner-eschenbach Quotes
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Most imitators attempt the inimitable. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A defeat borne with pride is also a victory. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We don't believe in rheumatism and and true love untill the first — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The insignificant labor; the great create. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Imaginary evils are incurable. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who know nothing must believe everything. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The wise man is seldom prudent. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Pity is love in undress. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Old age transfigures or fossilizes. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
In youth we learn; in age we understand. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not every great man is a grand human being. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach