Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

A 1771 portrait of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim by Johann Heinrich Tischbein.

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (2 April 1719 – 18 February 1803) was a German poet of the Enlightenment.

Quotes

• Was von mir, ein Esel spricht,
  Das acht’ ich nicht.
  • What an ass may say of me,
    that I do not heed.
  • Fabeln (Berlin, 1756), p. 9, Fab. 4 ("Der Lӧwe u. der Fuchs")
  • Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2988
  • Cf. Phaedrus, The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him