When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.