FastSaying
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
england
humour
Related Quotes
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Blessing
Ears
Easily
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
distortion
falsehood
lies
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
criticism
critics
mediocrity
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
books
humor
intelligence
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said in a letter to
Voltaire
}
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
fallacy
god-of-the-gaps
incomprehensibility