The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Any time not spent in love is wasted.
• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be defeated, but they start a winning game.
• Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
• To act is easy; to think is hard.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.