Bertolt Brecht Quotes
- Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
- There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
- Temptation to behave is terrible.
- The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
- Why be a man when you can be a success?
- The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
- You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
- What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
- One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the…
- Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!
- Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
- Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
- The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
- What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
- There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
- A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll…
- It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.
- Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
- The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
- People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.