Quotes from Johann Georg Zimmermann

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.