What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the praying does no good, insurance does help.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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