Top 89 Zimmermann Quotes

#1. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #514
#2. Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #51732
#3. I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #64176
#4. Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #116740
#5. Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #139595
#6. The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #145266
#7. Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #153072
#8. Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #161566
#9. Zimmermann employed a neat trick that used asymmetric RSA encryption in tandem with old-fashioned symmetric encryption.

Simon Singh

Zimmermann Quotes #186944
#10. Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #215969
#11. Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #217124
#12. a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time.

Robert Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #265561
#13. News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #275674
#14. I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Raquel Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #275793
#15. When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #279158
#16. Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #285097
#17. One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #343234
#18. One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #351633
#19. Zimmermann believed that everybody deserved the right to the privacy that was offered by RSA encryption, and he directed his political zeal toward developing an RSA encryption product for the masses.

Simon Singh

Zimmermann Quotes #383385
#20. I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #387934
#21. Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #407059
#22. Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #423157
#23. Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #441222
#24. Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #443193
#25. Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #461299
#26. Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #473834
#27. A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #565355
#28. Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #597477
#29. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #606410
#30. Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #622551
#31. Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #625201
#32. The sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #647132
#33. In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #648634
#34. The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #651202
#35. A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #657559
#36. Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #658167
#37. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #723530
#38. Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #726923
#39. Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #741106
#40. The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #800446
#41. The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #840946
#42. One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #866922
#43. We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #878345
#44. Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

Raquel Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #925780
#45. For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #937081
#46. Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #964700
#47. I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

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#48. Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #997495
#49. Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1008732
#50. Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1024822
#51. Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1038988
#52. When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1069608
#53. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Phil Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1071660
#54. Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1113369
#55. Brancheau was smiling, her long ponytail flaring out behind her. It was an endearing site: Man

Tim Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1123508
#56. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1126022
#57. Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1127545
#58. Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1203496
#59. I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.

Raquel Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1209831
#60. The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1248595
#61. Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1254047
#62. Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1261811
#63. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1290385
#64. The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1292087
#65. When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1298239
#66. Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1347008
#67. The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1348835
#68. Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1349992
#69. Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1353381
#70. All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1375644
#71. Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1394873
#72. Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1400708
#73. It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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#74. Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1425651
#75. The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1470016
#76. All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

Pierre Boulez

Zimmermann Quotes #1512769
#77. The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1515193
#78. Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1521570
#79. Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1529205
#80. Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1532348
#81. An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1549520
#82. In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1575576
#83. I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

Raquel Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1656555
#84. That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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#85. By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1732391
#86. The only real nourishment you boys ever get comes from my cooking." - Florence Zimmermann

Brad Strickland

Zimmermann Quotes #1738162
#87. Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1782913
#88. I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

Raquel Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1813029
#89. 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.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Zimmermann Quotes #1869955

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