Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

We dont believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless mans life passes him by.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we dont care for.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Conquer but never triumph.