"Many hammer all over the wall and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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“A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.”
“How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields now.And joy and gladnessFill ev'ry breast!Oh earth!-oh sunlight!Oh rapture blest!Oh love! oh loved one!”
“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
More on Inefficiency
“You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.”
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”
“Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.”
More on Delusion
“First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.”
“I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.”
“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”