He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from ha... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."
"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."