No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz GrillparzerWhy does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Franz GrillparzerHuman life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
Franz GrillparzerNo shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz Grillparzer