Heine, Heinrich

The merchant has the same religion all over the world

The Rhine wine still shines like gold / In the green Roman glass / And if you drink a few too many glasses / It climbs up your nose

The devil, the nobility and the Jesuits exist only as long as one believes in them

The wind pulls on its pants

Germany A Winter's Tale

The Jews, if they are good, they are better, if they are bad, they are worse than the Christians

The maid Europa is engaged / To the beautiful genius / To freedom, they lie in each other's arms / They revel in the first kiss

The cheeky nomads of the North Sea

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going to war

The Negroes of Senegal affirm staunchly that the apes are human beings just like us, but wiser, by abstaining from speaking, in order not to be recognized as human beings and forced to work

But see! there in the moonlight / The colossal fellows! / It looms up devilishly black, / This is the Cologne Cathedral

Where books are burned, people will also be burned in the end

You ask me child what is love? A star in a bunch of crap

Fragrances are the feelings of flowers

Poultry is also a fly in the soup

There are two kinds of rats: / The hungry and the full, / The full stay happily at home, / But the hungry emigrate

Much in this world matters what one's name is; the name is a lot