One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChildren, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe