Jacob Grimm

“The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.”

“Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.”

“In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.”

“I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!”

“Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.”