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