Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. Translation: God will forgive me. It's his job.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. (Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.);"Heinrich Heine, "Almansor (1821)

The Heineken Uncertainty Principle: You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Those bad guys are going to get medieval on your heiney!

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!