Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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