Top 203 Quotes & Sayings by Bertolt Brecht - Page 4

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.