The best Quotes by Kurt Tucholsky

You need lots of patience to learn how to be patient.

Let us enjoy life as long as we don't understand it.

It's great to share silence with someone else.

It's too bad that wine can't be hugged.

Your own dog never makes any noise - it's just barking.

One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Berlin - the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.

You're crazy, child, you should go to Berlin.

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

As soon as you come into Berlin, it's over with peachiness and elegance.

In the face of God, all people are from Berlin.

These days, space is less dangerous than the streets of Berlin.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Patience is what separates good hunters from dead ones.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

You don't talk much... I like you!

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Wine has its uses... like revealing someone's true colors, for example.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

I am NOT telling you to be aggressive! I am telling you to stay in control. Be calm and assertive!

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.