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Make an end, oh Lord, make an end!

The 12th stanza of the evangelical hymn you command your ways of the hymn poet Paul Gerhardt is as follows:

“ Make an end, O Lord, put an end
to all our need;
strengthen our feet and hands
and let
us be
recommended to your care and faithfulness at all
times until death , so our ways will
certainly go to heaven. "

This verse is one of Gerhardt's much-quoted words:

“ The opening words of the stanza are quoted when you want to express - with a sigh, as it were - that you are longing for the end of a long speech or the long overdue conclusion of a thing. "

Do it, Otze!

The saying "Do et" comes from the German football coach Erich Rutemöller which enables its players frank ordenewitz (nickname Otze ) encouraged in the German Cup semi-final on May 7, 1991 at the home race of his 1. FC Cologne against MSV Duisburg against To provoke a red card at the end of the game that had already been decided 2-0 for Cologne, which he then did.

According to the rules of the time, Ordenewitz could actually have served the game suspension due to the red card in the Bundesliga and would not have been suspended for the upcoming cup final because of his two yellow cards. In the exuberance of his feelings after the cup final, Rutemöller revealed the action in the television interview following the game. Ordenewitz was then banned by the DFB for the final, Rutemöller was fined 5000 DM and the rules were changed for the following season. Rutemöller's saying “Mach et” became a popular word in several variations, mostly in connection with Ordenewitz's nickname Otze.

Take a rest!

The request was used as an advertising slogan for Coca-Cola in the mid-1950s and has become so solidified that it has become a quotation. In the late 1960s, another slogan was used: “ It's better with Coca-Cola. "

Today, the above words are used not only as a call to indulge in a rest, but also ironically, to interrupt a person's flow of speech. The saying is so well known that it is also used in other contexts.

Do it again, Sam!

Do it again, Sam is the German title of the US film Play it again, Sam with Woody Allen from 1971. The title (literally: " Play it again, Sam ") alludes to the film Casablanca .

The hero of Allen's film, an awkward film critic, dreams of being like Humphrey Bogart . His friends start looking for a wife for him. But as soon as Allen meets an attractive woman, he hides behind a mask of silly masculinity, with Humphrey Bogart at his side with advice:

“ Forget the past, women are not complicated. I haven't met anyone who wouldn't have caught a slap or the sight of my cannon. "

In the film Casablanca, the request to the bar pianist to play a song from days gone by ( As time goes by ) is "Play it, Sam." The quote is occasionally used as an invitation to repeat something that has already been successful was.

Power of darkness

This metaphor for evil par excellence comes from the Gospel of Luke , where Jesus said to the soldiers when he was captured:

" 52 Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and to the elders who had come over him," You went out with swords and staves as if you were a murderer. 53 I was with you every day in the temple, and you did not put your hand on me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness. "

According to the belief of Manichaeism in the beginning there was the kingdom of light of God. Opposite is the realm of darkness, in which there is struggle and disunity. During his inner struggles, the darkness attacks the light. God the Father doesn't want a fight. For this reason he sends his son into battle so that he can be captured by the darkness. Through the sacrifice of his son the kingdom of light remains intact and the final victory over darkness is prepared.

The words "Power of Darkness" appear more frequently in film titles and conjure up dark associations, can also be used parodically, as in the film title Erkan and Stefan - Against the Forces of Darkness .

Power of proportions

The power of circumstances: A tragedy in five acts is the title of a play by Ludwig Robert from 1811, with which he wanted to renew the bourgeois tragedy as a socially critical drama. The play follows the tendency that in matters of honor the differences of class must cease, so that the duel must be seen as an emergency right of the citizen and the nobility. In the end, the lesson remains that nobody should push themselves into strange circles:

“ The plot of this piece, which is not held together by any artistic force, only moves one single mainspring: the refusal of a duel out of class considerations. At the moment when the part, feeling impaired by the power of circumstances, resort to self-revenge, to murder, the life of the play is actually over. "

The title is often quoted with resignation when one has to submit to the constraints of the given circumstances and a good idea cannot be realized.

Now do you have a Drägg avenue!

Friedrich August III. in parade uniform, 1912

" Well, do a Drägg avenue! "( Saxon for:" Do your dirt alone! ") Should the Saxon King Friedrich August III. alleged to have said when he abdicated on November 13, 1918 at Guteborn Castle near Ruhland .

Allegedly a delegation of revolutionaries came to the king to declare him deposed. Whose reaction was:

“ Are they doing that? "

Friedrich August was not very interested in government business anyway and left without resistance. When a crowd cheered him up at the train station, he said goodbye:

" Well, you guys are disgusting Rebubligan ... "

The writer Kurt Tucholsky deals with this saying in his poem Das Königswort , which begins with the following stanza:

“ This delighted high and low:
When the noble King Friedrich,
August formerly from all of Saxony,
made
his people grow , who loved him, when
there was cheap red wine -
when the king, I say, noticed
how the inner enemy strengthened himself, he
looks over the Heiducken,
and you can hear him swallow softly ..
And he mumbles through his teeth:
'Get rid of your filth!' "

The words " do your own mess " are often used today when someone gives up a job in frustration.

Power before justice.

Otto von Bismarck as Prime Minister

In 1863 Maximilian Graf von Schwerin put the sentence “Power is right” in the mouth of Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck in relation to his speech in the Prussian House of Representatives. He is thus profiling himself as Bismarck's parliamentary opponent.

The quote collector Georg Büchmann writes in his Winged Words :

“On January 27, 1863, Bismarck spoke in the House of Representatives:“ Since state life cannot stand still, conflicts become questions of power; whoever has power in his hands then proceeds in his own way «. Count Maximilian von Schwerin (1804–1872) replied: »I declare that I do not consider the sentence in which the speech by the Minister-President culminated:› Power is right ‹... as a sentence that the dynasty in Prussia on can support the duration ... that this is rather the other way around:
right comes before power and the like. s. w. ”
Bismarck, who was not present during his opponent's speech and only later, when he had come back into the hall, had heard that he had been told:“ Power is right ”, protested against it, whereupon Count von Schwerin replied that he did not remember having said that the Minister-President had used these words, only that his speech culminated in this sentence. On February 1, 1868, Bismarck defended himself in the Prussian state parliament when Twesten misinterpreted a phrase. Bismarck said at the time: "I do not want this word of mine to be turned into a flying word through the help of the previous speaker, like an earlier one, which I have never said, that power comes before right."

The quote itself goes back to a place in the biblical prophet Habakkuk (1,3b LUT ), where it says:

“ Violence has priority. "

The philosopher Baruch de Spinoza writes in his "Tractatus politicus" (Chapter 2, § 13):

“ ... because everyone is as much right as he has power. "

This idea is taken up again in Goethe's Faust II (V, Palast):

“ You have violence, you are right. "

In Friedrich Schiller's poem Die Weltweise it says:

“ In life, strength is right. "

Finally, in Adelbert von Chamisso's poem Die Poisonmischerin it says:

“ Do you have the power, you have the right on earth. "

Open the door!

These words are the beginning of a well-known Advent song, the text of which was written by the hymn poet Georg Weissel in the years 1623/1642 based on Psalm 24:

“ Open the gates and open the doors of the world that the King of Honor may enter! "

The song itself begins like this:

" Open the door , the gate goes wide!
The Lord of Glory comes,
a King of all kingdoms,
a Savior of all the world at the same time,
who brings salvation and life with him,
who shouts with joy, sings with joy:
Praise be to my God,
my Creator rich in counsel. "

BMW Isetta

The beginning of the song is usually quoted as a friendly invitation:

• " Open the door! Come in! "
• " Open the door: project proposals for an 'Open Church' "
• " Open the door - for August Zirner "

The BMW Isetta scooter from the 1950s was popularly known as the Advent car in reference to this song (“Open the door! ”), Because the front door was opened like a refrigerator. The steering wheel swiveled with the front door forwards and to the side and thus offered a good entry point into an interior space sufficient for two people. Due to the front entry with the steering column folding upwards, the vehicle was only 2.25 meters long.

Destroy what destroys you

Make broken what breaks you is the title and chorus of a song by the German political rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben from 1969, before the band was founded. Norbert Krause's text begins with the words:

“ Radios are on, records are on,
films are on, TVs are on,
buying trips, buying cars, buying
houses, buying furniture. For what? "

The refrain then follows:

" Break what breaks you! "

This sentence became one of the best-known and still used slogans in the environment of the German-speaking autonomists , for example in the squatter movement and in neo-anarchist circles following the student movement of the 1960s. In Volume 12 of the Duden ( quotations and sayings ) it says:

“ The radical call was often sprayed on walls and also served as a justification for the vandalism of individual groups. - Today the slogan is quoted with an ironic distance, for example as a comment on the destruction in residential areas or in public facilities, the architecture of which is now viewed as inhospitable and misanthropic. "

Power corrupts.

Lord Acton

This is an abbreviated quote from the British historian Lord Acton who said the following in English :

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."

As the editor of several Catholic magazines, Acton was able to contribute his historical knowledge, which quickly brought him into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. He fought the papal infallibility doctrine of the First Vatican Council , but did not go as far as his mentor Ignaz von Döllinger , who co-founded the Old Catholic Church and was therefore excommunicated. In this context he uttered these words.

The writer Stefan Heym also quotes these words at the large demonstration on November 4, 1989 on Alexanderplatz in Berlin with regard to the dictatorship of the SED . In an interview, Heym later said:

“ If you go back in history, you will find in other periods that power has this effect on people. It was an English lord, I can't remember the name for the moment, who said: 'Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' "

Another quote illustrates Lord Acton's attitude:

" Great men are almost always bad men. "

“ Big men are almost always bad men. "

A few months before Heym, the photo of a group of Chinese journalists with a poster labeled with the same sentence on the eve of the Tian'anmen massacre became one of the most iconic images of the protests.

Make my right wing strong!

The Schlieffen Plan

“ Makes my right wing strong! “The Prussian Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen is said to have said in feverish fantasies shortly before his death. The Schlieffen Plan , which Sebastian Haffner described as one of Germany's seven deadly sins in World War I , was the model for Hitler's later Blitzkrieg .

When Alfred Graf von Schlieffen resigned from the post of Chief of Staff in 1905/06, he left his successor Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke the memorandum containing the main features of the plan. Moltke adapted the Schlieffen Plan to the changed strategic situation. The offensive right wing, which was supposed to push through Belgium, retained the strength provided in the original plan, but additional forces were assigned to the defensive left wing. Contrary to Schlieffen's advice, the balance of power between the right and left German wings was changed in 1909. In Count Schlieffen's plan, this ratio was still 7: 1, now it has shifted to 3: 1.

Schlieffen's doctor, chief physician-general Rochs, writes in his book "Schlieffen" about the last words of his patient:

“ In his feverish fantasies, history, politics, war, battle descriptions and family foundations were mixed up. In clear moments he expressed full knowledge of his illness, he would occasionally say: 'So head rose', then 'Strange, this decline in strength'. His last words were: 'Small causes, big effects'. "

Made in Germany

Special postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost from 1988

The British Merchandise Marks Act of 1887 excluded from importation into Great Britain all foreign-made goods bearing names or trademarks belonging to a British manufacturer, dealer or merchant.

“ Unless such name or trade mark is accompanied by a definite indication of the country in which the goods were made or produced” (“unless an exact designation of the country in which the goods were manufactured or produced was added to this name or trade mark was produced ").

The report of the customs commissioners to the commissioners of the state treasury of November 14, 1888 states as the implementation provision for this:

“ For example, it is desirable that German goods bearing the name 'John Brown' be added to the designation of origin with the addition Made in Germany , and that the designation 'Germany' is insufficient; it is absolutely necessary to put the label 'Made in Germany'. "

In 1916, during the First World War, the British Ministry of Commerce made the designation “Made in Austria / Hungary” mandatory. This should make it easier for the British to recognize and boycott the goods of the enemy. The marking was retained even after the war. Since the quality of German goods was generally good, the Made in Germany label, which was initially directed against German imports, was increasingly gaining acceptance as a seal of quality, not only in Great Britain .

Milan or Madrid, mainly Italy.

Answer of the former German soccer player Andreas Möller during an interview when asked where he would play in the future. Möller then moved to Juventus Turin . This set is a classic in the soccer style blooms and is even sold as a t-shirt print.

The professional soccer player Jürgen Wegmann made a similar mistake, who replied when asked if he wanted to switch to FC Basel :

“ I have always said that I would never move to Austria. "

Make love was not

“ Make love - not war ” (“Make love, not war!”) Was a slogan of the anti-Vietnam war movement of the 1960s and was also taken up by the hippie movement. John Lennon and Bob Marley adopted the slogan in their 1973 songs "Mind Games" and "No more trouble" respectively. If the command “make love” was entered on the computer PDP-10 from the manufacturer DEC , the system replied with “not war?”. Something similar was implemented in early Unix versions.

You don't treat yourself to anything else.

"We only treat anything," was a slogan in which the portly actor Günter Strack for Malteser Aquavit advertised, which should act in the face of his corpulence and cold buffet in the background ironically. Even in everyday language usage, this saying is not taken literally as an excuse for a convenience that one allows oneself.

The sentence comes from the Wilkens advertising agency , which also created the following slogans:

“ The day goes, Johnnie Walker is coming. "

“ It has always been a bit more expensive to have a special taste. "

Workers have been called in and people are coming.

This is what the Swiss writer Max Frisch made on the subject of guest workers . He criticized the Swiss attitude of mind, especially with regard to Italian immigrants.

In 1965, Frisch wrote as a foreword to Siamo Italiani , a conversation with Italian guest workers, which was also made into a film. After a five-year stay in Rome, he had relocated to Switzerland and actually no longer wanted to speak publicly about Switzerland. Nevertheless he wrote:

“ A small master race sees itself in danger: workers have been called in and people are coming. "

Frisch attributed the self-sufficiency mentality of the Swiss to the “ spiritual national defense ” in World War II, which cultivated a self-image “ that was committed to an ideal and not to reality ”.

You either have it or you don't.

These words are the title and the last verse of a poem by Theodor Fontane :

“ Only striving for nothing as a Furioso
And fighting until the saber breaks,
It has to give itself to you -
you have it or you don't have it. "

The subject of the poem is the futility of will. Happiness can only be achieved when it is predetermined.

Today the formulation refers to something that cannot be acquired, something that you have to bring with you as a talent:

“ You either have it or you don't. There are great singers who are nervous and unable to develop on stage. "

One eats to live and one does not live to eat.

This sentence comes from the play The Miser by the poet Molière and reads as follows in the French original:

" Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger. "

The quote goes back to a saying that is attributed to the ancient philosopher Socrates :

“ We don't live to eat; we eat to live. "

You can kill a person with an apartment just like with an ax.

The Berlin draftsman Heinrich Zille dealt in his pictures with the problems of the proletarian quarters of Berlin at the turn of the 20th century. His father was unemployed for a long time, the family lived in a damp basement apartment that was furnished with an oven, a chair, a cup with no handles and no beds. Heinrich Zille himself came to Berlin with his parents at the age of nine and later described in his memoirs the Berlin apartment where his father took the family after he had picked them up from the train station:

“ Torn wallpaper on the walls, blood stains from crushed bedbugs. In one corner a pile of straw, that was supposed to be our bed, and a large wooden suitcase tied with iron straps… a few bundles of clothes, that was all we had to 'start new life'. "

In connection with Zille's sentence, a call for a nationwide day of action in October suggested that a symbolic Zille monument should be inaugurated in front of the Berlin Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , which should be under the following motto:

“ You can also kill people with Hartz IV. "

You can not communicate.

This is the first of the five pragmatic axioms of communication theory of communication scientist Paul Watzlawick , which are presented in the second chapter of his book Human Communication - Forms, Disorders, Paradoxes . It arises from the consideration that the “material” of any communication is not just words, but behavior of all kinds. However, one cannot not behave and therefore, since all behavior is communicative, one can not communicate either . "Action or inaction, words or silence are all communicative."

The other four axioms are:

• Every communication has a content and a relational aspect in such a way that the latter determines the former and is therefore a metacommunication.
• The nature of a relationship is determined by the punctuation of the communication flow by the partners.
• Human communication uses digital and analog modalities. Digital communications have complex and varied logical syntax, but inadequate semantics in the field of relationships. Analog communications, on the other hand, have this semantic potential, but lack the logical syntax required for unambiguous communications.
• Interpersonal communication processes are either symmetrical or complementary, depending on whether the relationship between the partners is based on equality or diversity.

You don't come into the world a woman, you become one.

This so-called femininity theorem comes from the feminist Simone de Beauvoir and reads as follows in the French original:

“ On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. "

This sentence is the core idea of ​​Beauvoir's book The Other Sex , which is still debated today. This is what Ursula März writes in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit :

“ Because this sentence haunts the scenes whenever the women's issue or one of its aspects appears on the stage. While the problem of heliocentrism has been settled since Galileo and the problem of whether being determines consciousness or vice versa has taken its place on the reserve bench waiting for the mid-term results of prenatal or brain research, the problem of how we man and As nature and culture, biology and socialization prevail in the gender scheme, women are and will be pretty busy. Whether we notice it or not. "

One notices the intention and is out of tune

" You notice the intention and you are out of tune " is the slightly modified form of a statement by Tasso in Goethe's drama Torquato Tasso , with which he expresses his displeasure with the behavior of Leonore Sanvitale:

... and even if she
intends to please the friends, one
feels intent and one is upset.

The quote is used when it is difficult to see clearly hidden personal interests.

You have to celebrate the festivals as they come.

With the words “ You have to celebrate the festivities as they come ” you ask not to miss an opportunity to celebrate. There is also the suffix:

“ And if they don't want to fall, you have to help out. "

The saying was spread by the farce " Graupenmüller " of the Berlin author Hermann Salingré .

You have to obey God more than people.

In response to the high priests' accusation of disregarding the prohibition on teaching publicly in the name of Jesus , Simon Peter replies :

“ You have to obey God more than people. "

This maxim is still the guideline for many religious people today .

You should be able to play the piano

This is a song by Hans Fritz Beckmann that Johannes Heesters played in the 1941 film Immer nur ... Du! sang.

“ One should be able to play the piano.
Whoever plays the piano is lucky with the women.
Because the gentlemen who can make music
quickly win the trust of the ladies. "

Under the heading You don't have to be able to play the piano , Volker Hagedorn put his Zeit article in 2007 about the publication of the 27th and last volume of The Music in Past and Present , the largest lexicon project in musicology.

They called him ...

The titles of some adventure and crime films begin with these words:

• " They called him Hombre "
• " He was called Kelly "

such as

• " It was called the great war "
• " Women who were called killers "

You hit the sack and mean the donkey

The proverbial saying “ You hit the sack and you mean the donkey ” is used when someone is reprimanded on behalf of someone else, but is not really meant at all. It can already be found in the Satyricon of the Roman writer Titus Petronius . There it says in the parodic insert The Banquet of the Trimalchio :

Qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit.

"If you can't [hit] the donkey, you hit the pack saddle."

In his drama Kabale und Liebe, Friedrich Schiller contrasts the stilted language of the court with the direct, often crude language of the Miller couple. Miller is characterized by the common man's language. He underlines his views with general expressions such as:

“ You hit the sack; you mean the donkey. "

One sees clearly only with the heart.

The fox in the Little Prince

The most famous quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the statement of the fox that the title character meets during her journey:

And so the little prince came to the seventh planet, earth. After talking to a snake, he crossed the desert in Africa and met a flower, then found a rose garden and finally met the fox. He told him: " You only know the things you tame " and he revealed his secret to the prince:

“ You can only see clearly with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes. "

“ On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. "

This quote appears today in the texts of numerous obituaries and in poetry albums, and as a word of encouragement to blind people.

One can see the word as a secular variant of a thought from the 1st book Samuel (16, 7), which in the standard translation reads as follows: "Man looks outside, but the Lord looks at the heart". The quote from the Old Testament is often chosen as a baptismal motto.

You don't change horses in the middle of the river.

Slogan of the US politician Abraham Lincoln in the election campaign of 1864:

" Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream. "

After their defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863, the Confederates were no longer able to win the war on their own. Their only chance was to continue the war for so long and with such losses to the North that Abraham Lincoln would lose the presidential election of 1864 and be replaced by a new, negotiating president.

This opportunity was very real. The long trench warfare in northern Virginia largely cost the Lincoln government the trust of the people. The president was so unpopular in the summer of the election year that he himself expected a defeat. His opponent was his former Commander in Chief George B. McClellan , who seemed ready to recognize the independence of the South.

Some like it hot.

Some like it hot is the German title of the American comedy Some like it hot by Billy Wilder from 1959. The action takes place during the alcohol prohibition in Chicago in the late 1920s. When the illegal nightclub, a so-called speakeasy , in which they have previously performed, isclosedafter a raid , musicians Joe and Jerry have problems finding new jobs.

The title of the film is often quoted to suggest that someone is creating delicate situations. But often it is used in a completely different context as a phrase:

• " Stiftung Warentest : Test report Some like hot vacuum bottles "
• “ Some like it hot - not sperm! "
• “ Climate change and industries: some like it hot! "

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud , discoverer of the phallic symbol and passionate smoker, used these words to counter the contradiction that he liked to light a cigar himself. It should be noted, however, that the question of its authenticity remains open. Because there is no direct record that he ever made this statement. Since Freud as a doctor knew about the dangers of smoking, he tried to get used to it. His friend, Medical Councilor Wilhelm Fließ , tried to help him by banning him from smoking. But without a cigar, Freud lost interest in working. However, the shape of the cigar is misleading. The analyst Josef Patloch notes:

“ He was able to satisfy the libidinal fixation on the mother's breast with the help of the cigar that was always available. "

The above sentence is about ideologies in psychoanalysis :

“ There are psychotherapy schools that are more ideologies. I would include psychoanalysis as a tendency: you are looking for suppressed sexuality everywhere. "

Men - it's time!

The Tyrolean freedom fighter Andreas Hofer originally said these words in his native dialect:

“ Mander - it's time! "

In a comment on the Austrian milk campaign day in March 2005, this quote is taken up in a slightly different form:

“ 'Mannda it's time' - with these words the legendary Andreas Hofer once moved an entire peasant people to fight for a just cause. "

Men make history.

This quote from the historian Heinrich von Treitschke expresses the conviction that history is decisively influenced by the actions of important personalities. Treitschke wrote in his book German History in the 19th Century in 1879 , probably referring to Otto von Bismarck :

“ Men make (the) history. "

In the introduction to his lectures on politics , Treitschke states:

“ If history were an exact science, we should be able to reveal the future of states. But we cannot do that, because the science of history encounters the riddle of personality everywhere. It is people, men, who make history. "

A similar way of seeing things can be found in the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle , who wrote:

“ World history is nothing but the biography of great men. "

" The history of the world is but the biography of great men. "

Men are probably the most primitive, stupid and lousiest thing that goes around.

This quote is from a therapy session in Loriot's comedy film Oedipussi . The therapist, Margarethe Tietze, reacts with the words:

“ Ms. Mengelberg, you raised a problem. Would you like to elaborate on that? "

Ms. Mengelberg then reports that she has been touched by men in the open-plan office where she works and starts to get excited again:

" ... well, that's probably the most primitive and lousy ... "

The therapist interrupts her:

“ We already understood you, Ms. Mengelberg. "

Marble, stone and iron breaks.

Drafi Deutscher , 1989

Marble, stone and iron breaks is the title of a song by Drafi Deutscher from 1965, the refrain of which is often sung as follows:

“ Marble, stone and iron break,
but our love does not.
Everything, everything passes,
but we are true to each other. "

The obituary for the singer's death is called " Broken Marble Stone ", in which the title is explained:

“ A great hit that has almost become a kind of folk song. And who is often quoted when it comes to language and hits. Not only because of the meaningful words 'dam dam, dam dam', but above all because of the title line. The contains a list of three materials: marble, stone and iron. Originally there should only be two, because marble and stone were actually intended as one word: 'marble stone' - like ebony and ivory. "

It is then explained that Drafi Deutscher only contributed one line to his hit:

" Dam dam, dam dam. "

The lyricist was Rudolf- Günter Loose . In the first publication the song was called " Marmorstein und Eisen breaks ".

Mars rules the hour.

Friedrich Schiller's drama Wallenstein's Death begins with a dialogue between Wallenstein and his astrologer Seni , who is busy observing the stars. Wallenstein says to Seni:

“ Leave it alone, Seni. Come down
The day is breaking and Mars rules the hour. "

Wallenstein, who believes in the stars, hesitates and wants to wait until a more favorable constellation occurs, in which the " blessing stars " Jupiter and Venus have " the fatal, treacherous Mars in their midst " and mitigate its influence.

The quote “ Mars rules the hour ” is used to describe war today .

March through the institutions

The march through the institutions alludes to Mao Zedong's historic Long March and was issued as a slogan by student leader Rudi Dutschke in 1967 when he demanded that the social revolutionary forces should change the political system through professional activity in authorities, schools and other institutions.

This theory was reissued in 1998 with the takeover of government by the Red-Green coalition, to which some representatives of the student movement of the time belonged (e.g. Joschka Fischer ). The march, so the thesis, has now reached its goal.

Martha! Martha! You disappeared.

In the romantic-comic opera Martha by Friedrich von Flotow , the tenant Lyonel sings the aria “ Oh so pious, oh so trusts ” with the famous ending:

" Oh so pious, oh so daring
, My eye has seen you.
Oh so mild and so pure
her image penetrated my heart.
Martha! Martha! You disappeared
and you took my happiness with you;
Give me back what you found,
Or share it with me,
Yes, share it with me. "

Under the heading “ Free beer for Martha ”, the author Gerd Diethelm lists a fourth method of paying bills when eating out with several people: The Martha method!

“ Based on an old song from the twenties of the last century - Martha, Martha, you disappeared and with you my wallet - another variant of billing is derived. Invite and let your guests pay for themselves and for you, the suddenly overwhelmed invitee: Prosit Martha! "

Matthai on the last

Matthäi am Lesten thinks that a matter has a very last chance. When someone is insolvent, then Matthai is the last. In modern “German” one would say “deadline”, last deadline, last deadline, etc.

The statement refers to the Gospel according to Matthew on the Last, namely Sunday of the church year. In detail, the Catholic Church had before the liturgical reform Mt 25.15–35  EU and today after the liturgical reform in reading year A it has Mt 25.31–46  EU ; In Protestantism, the parable of the virgins ( Mt 25 : 1–13  LUT ) is also spread on various occasions . Common to these pericopes is the talk of the Last Judgment , before which - among other things - it will be zappenduster ( Acts 2.20  EU ).

Dare more democracy

“ We want to dare more democracy. “Said Willy Brandt , who was the first social democrat to be elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, in his government declaration of October 28, 1969. This message also became one of the trademarks of his social-liberal coalition.

This motto was not without controversy back then. When Willy Brandt said at the end of his speech “ We are not at the end of our democracy, we are just getting started ”, the opposition protested with heckling like “ A strong piece! Incredible! Unheard of! "

In addition, it does not originally come from Willy Brandt, but was first mentioned in 1961 in the explanation of the Tübingen Memorandum , a memorandum by Protestant intellectuals around Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker against nuclear armament and for the recognition of the Oder-Neisse border .

When Angela Merkel (CDU) replaced Gerhard Schröder as Federal Chancellor after a coalition agreement with the SPD , she took up these words in her government statement of November 30, 2005: “ Let us dare to be more free! "

More light!

In his last words on March 22, 1832, Johann Wolfgang Goethe is said to have said, according to Chancellor Friedrich von Müller :

“ Open the second shutter so that more light comes in! "

This was shortened to “ More light ” and is now quoted as a joke when it is too dark in a room. The phrase “ More light! “Is often interpreted philosophically.

There are numerous other theories as to what Goethe's last words might have been. Werner Fuld claims z. B., the last words were addressed to the daughter-in-law:

" Ladies, give me your paw! "

Thomas Bernhard says in the essay Goethe dies that they had “ nothing more! " ringed.

Another joking modification of the saying refers to Goethe's pronunciation in the Frankfurt dialect. For example, the last words on the death bed are said to have been rather “Merry [the pillow is crooked]” instead of “ More light ”, meaning “The pillow is crooked for me”.

Having more debt than hair on your head

This saying is derived from Psalm 40:13  EU , in which King David compares the number of his sins with the hair on his head:

“ For it has surrounded me suffering without number; my sins have seized me that I cannot see; hers is more than the hair on my head, and my heart has left me. "

In Petra Hammesfahr's volume of short stories The Girlfriend is played with this saying when it says:

“ In my mind I can already hear the prosecutor talking. 'Paul Schmalbach had more debt than hair on his head'. And I still have pretty thick hair. "

In a discussion on the sale of Dresden real estate, one participant wrote with reference to Lord Mayor Ingolf Roßberg :

“ I'm just curious to see when the people of Dresden will again have more debts than the mayor has hair on his head. "

In March 2006 the city council of Dresden decided to sell the housing company WOBA Dresden to the American investment company Fortress Investment Group LLC . As a result, Dresden became the first debt-free city ​​in Germany, because the 982 million euros collected could be used to repay the 741.4 million euros in debt.

If you want to take the phrase literally, you have to consider that the average person has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on their heads . The number of hairs depends on the thickness of the hair. Blonde hair occurs in greater numbers than black hair, red hair is the thickest and therefore occurs in the smallest number.

Be more than seem

State seal of the US state of North Carolina

“ Be more than seem - achieve a lot and stand out little ” is the motto of the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke (1800–1891). In 1903, in a speech on the occasion of his anniversary in service , the Prussian Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen also recommended “ Be more than it seems ” as a motto for General Staff officers. Modesty is also one of the Prussian virtues , which initially went back to the kings Friedrich Wilhelm I , the thrifty, bourgeois administrative reformer and soldier king , and to his son Frederick the Great .

In the Third Reich , the slogan was used both by the SS and as a motto for the daggers of honor he graduated from the National Political Education Institute . In the SS Junker School Bad Tölz , the motto was hung in the seminar rooms (see illustration ). In the past after the fighter pilots of the Armed Forces Helmut Lent named von Duering barracks this saying is run as a motto of the barracks today.

The appeal is already documented in ancient times by Cato the Elder and was the motto of various noble houses. In the Latin form Esse quam videri , it is the motto of the US state North Carolina .

Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer stated in an interview in 2002 that Germany would remain a reliable but modest partner on the international stage:

“ The requirement is: 'Be more than it seems,' says the minister in an interview with Reader's Digest magazine (August issue). A 'wisely used self-restraint' leads to leeway 'that is in the interests of our country'. "

More appearance than being (English: " Keeping Up Appearences ") is a British sitcom that was produced by the BBC 1990-1995. The main character of this series is the housewife and snob Hyacinth Bucket, who tries to impress her fellow men with all means.

My friend is Plato, but even more my friend is the truth.

This line of thought comes from an anonymous late antique biography of Aristotle, the so-called Vita vulgata and was originally attributed to the Socrates student Plato , but was later transferred to the Plato student Aristotle . In the Greek original it reads:

" Φίλος μεν Πλάτων, φιλτέρα δὲ ἀλήθεια. "

Philos men Platōn, philtera de alētheia.

The biographer thus justifies Aristotle's criticism of Plato's doctrine and then quotes a saying from Plato's dialogue Phaedo , where Socrates says to Simmias and Kebes:

“ Do not consider Socrates so much as the truth. "

Plato repeats the idea again in his Politeia , where Socrates explains with reference to Homer :

“ But a person must not be valued more highly than the truth. "

The British scholar Isaac Newton introduced his collection of notes Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae, begun in 1661, with the saying:

" Amicus Plato, amicus Aristotle, magis amica veritas. "

“ Plato is my friend and so is Aristotle, but my dearest friend is the truth. "

My God, Walter!

“ My God, Walter! “Is a stupid song by the comedian Mike Krüger from 1975. It's about a man named Walter who has to struggle with the pitfalls of everyday life. His way of solving the problem repeatedly provokes this sigh.

“ His wife, Marie, still looked pretty good for her age.
And when she said something, it was mostly:
My God Walter. "

The quote is used today in various contexts, especially when a person's first or last name is Walter. An article about the credit models of Deutsche Bank , in which the economist Norbert Walter is criticized, is entitled “ Mein Gott, Walter ”.

My girdle is killing me.

Girdle

This is a classic advertising slogan from the 1960s that a woman used to complain about her girdle . The girdle was made of body-shaping material, reached from the waist to the base of the thighs and was often laced.

The lady who complained so then switched to Playtex and had no more problems.

On International Women's Day 2008, a multimedia tour through the history of the women's movement with the title " My girdle is killing me! " Took place in the Homburger Siebenpfeifferhaus . From the blue stocking to the emanze… ” In the announcement it says:

“ The saying 'My girdle is killing me!', Which was chosen as the title, is sure to be remembered by many women from personal experience or as a deep sigh from mother or grandma. "

Holly cow!

There are two attempts to explain the phrase My dear Scholli :

1. It may be a derivation from the French adjective joli (= pretty ). Then it would be a Germanized form with the meaning of “ Well, my handsome, you've done something for yourself! "
2. The second attempt at an explanation refers to the Salzburg student Ferdinand Joly, who was expelled from the university and traveled the country as a poet of folk songs. In 2003 he was "honored" with a musical entitled Mei liaba Schole - after the regionally known exclamation based on his name and alluding to his work.

It is also possible that the expression " My dear Mr. Choral Society " was formed as an expression of amazement, based on this expression and the Lohengrin quote " My dear swan ".

My Milljöh

My Milljöh

Mein Milljöh is the title of one of the illustrated books by the Berlin illustrator Heinrich Zille , whoportrayedthe Berlin milieu of the proletarian quarterin his pictures. The core area of ​​the Zille-Milieu was located around the Wilhelminischer Ring , the tenement barracks belt, which was built around the old city center of Berlin in the second half of the 19th century and characterized by a dense development with four to five-story residential buildings with side wings and rear buildings was.

The illustrated book was sold more than 600,000 times in 1913. The writer Georg Hermann wrote in his foreword to Zille's collection of works:

“ Heinrich Zille knows how to express the essence of a person, a room, a room, a landscape, a type of lighting with the simplest means in the most striking and convincing way. "

For a long time, Zille's social commitment was kitschified and he himself was played down as " Brush Heinrich " until his social criticism was noticed in the 1960s. By the way, Zille is also considered a pioneer of analytical documentary photography.

The title or the word " Milljöh " alone (in its characteristic spelling) appear in texts that deal with relevant topics.

My name is rabbit.

The saying “My name is Rabbit, I don't know anything” goes back to the Heidelberg law student Victor von Hase , who in 1854 helped a fellow student who had shot someone in a duel to escape to France by deliberately losing his student ID. After Hase's ID was found in France, he was brought before the University Court. At the hearing he simply repeated:

"My name is Rabbit, I say no to the general questions, I don't know anything."

Today this quote is used to express that one does not want to have anything to do with something. The sentence is also common in the Dutch-speaking area in the form "Mijn naam is haas" .

My name is Lohse, I shop here.

With these words, the main character in Loriot's comedy film Pappa ante Portas introduces himself while shopping in the grocery store. The sentence shows the foreignness of the retired purchasing manager, who, as an early retiree, tries to transfer business economic processes to his private life. Later, when he feels neglected, he changes his idea:

“ My name is Lohse, I would have liked to shop here. "

But he continues to be ignored and says:

“ We don't do business in this tone. "

Mr. Lohse can then negotiate a quantity discount, which means that pallets of mustard jars are delivered to his house.

My name is Nobody.

My name is Nobody (Italian: Il mio nome è Nessuno ) is a western parody by Tonino Valerii based on an idea by Sergio Leone .

An aging gunslinger is tired and wants to embark for Europe without causing a stir. He has made enemies in the West and wants to retire. But when he meets the busy rascal Nobody, his plans change unintentionally.

With the words " My name is nobody " (Greek: Οὖτις ἐμοί γ 'ὄνομα ) the cunning Odysseus introduced himself to the Cyclops Polyphemus . When Odysseus blinded him in his sleep and Polyphemus called the other Cyclops to help, they did not care about him, as Polyphemus was obviously talking nonsense:

“ The pathetic cry of Polyphemus echoed across the island. The other Cyclopes rushed over immediately and asked what had happened to them. Then Polyphemus shouted “Nobody is choking me with deceit!” They just laughed and went away. "

My better half

The name of the wife as "better half" (English: " my better half ") probably goes to the English writer Philip Sidney back of this turn in his novel " Arcadia of Countess of Pembrock English" ( " The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia “), Which appeared posthumously in 1590. The novel with which the English shepherd poetry was founded was a great success. Sidney himself was seen as the ideal of a courtier, soldier, and scholar. He used those words in his Defense of Poesy ( Defense of Poetry , III):

" My dear, my better helped. "

Incidentally, the term “ better half ” was originally not only related to spouses, but could also refer to a dear friend.

Perhaps it echoes the myth of the spherical man in Plato's Dialog Symposion , according to which originally androgynous beings, the androgynoi , were divided into two halves by Zeus , which have since struggled together again.

My sister's name is polyester.

These words come from a revue number that the actress Evelyn Hamann sings in Loriot's film Oedipussi . This song is a German version of the Henry Mancini title Le Jazz Hot from the soundtrack to the Blake Edwards comedy Victor / Victoria and contains verses like the following:

" My sister's name is Polyester.
She's been sucking for almost 9 years now.
Always the same yellow plastic candy
that is top quality. "

In the film, Margarethe Tietze, played by Hamann, is supposed to perform a revue for the polyvinyl chloride from the fictional company Kunststoff-Meyer and promises herself with the word polyester :

“ His sister's name is ... shit! "

The reaction to that is:

“ No, that's not her name. "

Hamann speaks out with:

“ I just can't remember that stupid name. "

My hour has not yet come.

Wedding at Cana

At the wedding in Cana in the Gospel according to John , Jesus Christ is informed by his mother that the host has run out of wine. At first he rejects them abruptly:

“ 1 And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. 2Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 And when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus said to her, Woman, what have I to do with you? My hour has not yet come. "( Joh 2,4  EU )

Only then does Jesus set about doing his “ first sign ”. He instructs the servants to fill water jugs intended for ritual cleansing with water. When the chef tastes it, he calls the bridegroom in surprise and asks him why he kept the good wine until the end.

The hour of Jesus is mentioned again and again in John's Gospel . The term then appears again in connection with the Last Supper and the washing of the feet :

“ 1 It was before the Passover. Jesus knew that his hour had come to go over to the Father from this world. Since he loved his own who were in the world, he showed them his love to the end. 2 There was a meal, and the devil had already put Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, in his heart to betray him and 3 Jesus, who knew that the Father had given him everything in his hand and that he had come from God and was returning to God, 4 got up from the supper, took off his robe, and girded himself with a linen cloth. 5 Then watered He poured water into a bowl and began washing the disciples' feet and drying them with the linen cloth with which he was girded. "( Joh 13,1-5  EU )

My hour has not yet come is also the title of a historical novel by the former Roman Catholic priest Peter de Rosa about the early years of Jesus.

Yours truly

This expression is intended to express modesty and goes back to the Latin mea parvitas , which can be found in the foreword Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem ( Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings ) by the Roman writer Valerius Maximus .

The late Latin writer Aulus Gellius says of himself “ mea tenuitas ”, which means the same thing and was taken up again by the German baroque poet Martin Opitz in the introduction to his book by the Teutsche Poeterey :

" And I (how much I am ashamed / that I should use my own in the absence of other German examples / because I am well aware of my little and lack of ability) in the first book of the still unspecified consolation in the repugnance of war "

Today this expression is mostly used in connection with the introduction of oneself or the reference to working on a project:

• " A little about yours truly "
• " Yours truly. Well, then I'll tell you a little bit about myself. "

The term is also used ironically, for example when a person takes over the main work on a project, but introduces their area of ​​responsibility with “Yours truly ...”.

Likewise, the term can be used to avoid sounding arrogant or to give the impression that you want to take yourself too seriously.

Most of the time it is the loss that teaches us about the value of things.

This knowledge comes from the aphorisms on the wisdom of life of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer , who writes the following about the value of things :

“ I mean, we should at times try to look at what we have as we would imagine after losing it, whatever it may be: property, health, friends, lovers, wife, child , Horse and dog; for it is mostly the loss that teaches us about the value of things. "

Master of hearts

This title was given the football -Bundesligamannschaft of FC Schalke 04 in the vernacular for the first time at the end of the 2000/01 season , lost when FC Schalke on the final day of almost certain championship four minutes later with a goal of Bayern at Hamburger SV in stoppage time . In the 2004/05 and 2006/07 seasons , Schalke had again topped the table shortly before the end of the season, but again only came in second at the end. Schalke suffered the same fate in 2009/10 , when they had two points ahead of matchday 29 and a subsequent home game against their direct rivals Bayern Munich, but in the end only finished second.

Similar titles subsequently established themselves as near-winners for other enthusiasts, especially in sport: after the 2006 World Cup, the German national soccer team was also often called world champion of hearts because it was able to inspire the home crowd and was relatively unhappy in the semifinals after losing the game against Italy only in the final minutes of extra time.

The word creations "... of hearts" created since 1997 can be seen as a reference to the title Queen of Hearts , which Diana Spencer , ex-wife of the British heir to the throne Prince Charles , who died in 1997 , has been in public since her death.

The name Protestant of the hearts was coined, among other things, on the continued successful career of Ex-Bishop Margot Käßmann, who resigned after a drunk drive .

Memento mori.

Andrea Andreani : Triunphus Caesaris ( The Triumph of Caesar )

The Latin call memento mori means something like “ Remember that you are mortal! "

In ancient Rome a slave stood behind a victorious general during a triumphal procession , who held a laurel wreath over his head and admonished the triumphant continuously with the following words:

1. " Memento mori. "( Remember that you will die. )
2. “ Memento te hominem esse. "( Remember that you are human .)
3. “ Respice post te, hominem te esse memento. "( Look around you and think that you are only human too. )

Memento mori is also the title of a short poem by Joseph von Eichendorff :

“ Grab oysters, ducats,
still have to die!
Then the maggots dine
and the heirs laugh. "

Man, pay your debts!

This request comes from the second stanza of Heinrich Heine's poem Mensch, don't mock the devil , it says:

" Man, pay your debts,
the path in life is long, and
sometimes you still have to borrow,
as you have done so often. "

This quote is often used when it comes to collecting debts.

Man, become essential.

From the mystic Angelus Silesius comes a collection of spiritual rhymes and closing rhymes with the title The Cherubinian Wanderer , in whose second book the following motto can be found:

“ Man, become essential! Because when the world passes,
chance falls away, the essence that exists. "

For the mystic Angelus Silesius, this means turning inwards.

The expressionist poet Ernst Stadler took up this epigram in his poem Der Spruch :

“ In an old book I came across a word that
hit me like a blow and burned through my days:
And when I forgive myself for gloomy lust,
appearances, lies and games to me instead of the essence,
When I please myself with me quick sense lie
...
When a welcome dream strokes me with collective hands,
And day and reality slip away from me,
Alienated from the world, alien to the deepest self,
Then the word arises to me: Man, become essential! "

The quote is used today as a joking invitation to get down to business.

People in the hotel

People in the Hotel is an American film from 1932 based on a novel of the same name by the Austrian writer Vicki Baum . The English title of the film is: Grandhotel .

The novel is set almost exclusively in a Berlin luxury hotel (the Hotel Excelsior is said to have served as a model ) and thrives on the relationships that arise between the guests staying there. These include:

• a famous ballet dancer who has already passed her zenith and who keeps the whole hotel team busy before their performances;
• a lonely war veteran who repeatedly asked in vain at reception whether a letter had not been handed in for him;
• an impoverished baron who works as a facade climber and trickster.

The title is occasionally used as a metaphor for people who live next to each other without relationship.

People like you and me

People like you and me were the headlines of a section in The Best of Reader's Digest .

This or the phrase “ A person like you and me ” refers to people who have remained normal despite their fame, or people who resemble you, although some comparisons are often very far-fetched:

• " The Sims - Totally Normal, Like You and Me "
• " Monkeys like you and me "
• " A pig like you and me "

In one of the Greens party's first commercials from 1980, a grandpa came to the Greens with his granddaughter and said:

“ They are still people like you and me, Annegret. "

Humanly, all-to-humanly

title

Human, all too human is the title of a collection of reflections and aphorisms by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche .

The title is often cited as a comment on human weaknesses:

• “ Humorous and all too human. ... what makes us smile in everyday life. "
• " Funny pictures: human, all too human "
• " Love, gossip and world history - human and all-too-human in verse and prose "

I am amazed that I am so happy.

With this saying you express that you actually have no reason to be happy. It is the last verse of a quatrain by Martinus von Biberach from 1498:

I live and don't know how long

I die and don't know when

I don't know where to go

I am surprised that I am happy.

In 1949, the writer Johannes Mario Simmel gave his first novel the title I'm surprised that I'm so happy .

Milk of the pious mindset

In order to justify himself , Wilhelm Tell says in Friedrich Schiller's play in his monologue in front of the “ hollow street in Küssnacht ” where he ambushes Bailiff Geßler:

“ My thoughts were pure of murder.
You have
frightened me out of my peace , you have
transformed the milk of the pious way of thinking into fermenting dragon poison . "

The milk of the pious mindset is straightforwardness of thought, innocent behavior that is not for one's own benefit.

(Often, this term is also wrong as "milk of pious thinking ungs art" quote.)

Milk perks up tired men.

Milk perks up tired men was an advertising slogan of the West German dairy industry that originated in the 1950s. The slogan is still very well known today and found its way into common usage (sometimes in ironic variations):

• Light perks up tired children.
• Makes tired men perk up.
• Malt perks up tired men.
• Whey perks up tired men.
• Praktiker perks up tired men.
• Oxygen perks up tired men.
• Sex perks up tired men.

All follow-up campaigns also used the alliteration of the M as a stylistic device:

• “ Milk is against maroditis. "(A word invention from the 1970s)
• “ The milk does it. "(1980s)
• “ Milk is my strength. "(Since June 2005)

Milk and blood

As beautiful as milk and blood - looking young and vital; the pale skin and red lips or cheeks have long been considered a sign of health , vitality and beauty .

Milk and honey

The Bible in Genesis 2. Book of Canaan spoken as the country, "flowing with milk and honey" in the. The description of the promised land as the land of milk and honey points to a long-term goal in which life without need and hunger is possible, where there is no shortage.

Watch with eagle eyes

Peter Paul Rubens : Juno and Argus

This saying from Greek mythology either means to watch something tirelessly or not to let it out of your sight and goes back to the legend of the goddess Hera , Io , the lover of her godly husband Zeus , who was turned into a cow , by the giant Argos Panoptes (Greek : Άργος Πανόπτης, the all- seeing one ) who had eyes all over his body. Argus had a hundred eyes, part of which slept while the rest watched. At the command of Zeus, the messenger of the gods Hermes put Argus to sleep and killed him. Hera transferred his hundred eyes to the peacock's plumage .

The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens painted a picture entitled Juno and Argus , which shows Hera (Latin: Juno ) taking the eyes of the slain Argos.

The expression is still common today and is still used a lot, for example in an article about Central Air Traffic Control .

You see better with the second.

ZDF truck with sender motto

With this slogan from the Serviceplan agency, which takes up the station name, the Second German Television advertises its program offering with the depiction of celebrities who cover one another with two fingers of one hand (index and middle finger). However, the German Advertising Council did not accept the accusation that this would discriminate against visually impaired people .

On the website of the daily newspaper it says about this slogan:

“ Unofficial motto: You can see better with the second one, because the main target group has a cataract on the first. "

There are also other persiflage for this well-known saying:

• " Terror exercise on ZDF: The second one bombs better. "

With a woman's arms

With a woman's arms is the German title of the French film En cas de malheur from 1958 based on a novel by Georges Simenon .

These words are used to denote specific feminine tactics that women employ towards men. Dagmar Herzog writes an article about the US politician Sarah Palin under this heading :

" Sarah Palin scores with US voters as a mother and sexy career woman - a disaster for women's rights "

With a woman's arms - gold in sight! is a German documentary film that accompanies the biathletes of the German national team in preparation for the Biathlon World Cup 2006/2007 up to the season highlight, the Biathlon World Championships 2007.

Live with the bomb

This saying comes from the physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , who referred to the possibilities of dealing with the danger in the age of the atomic bomb . The title of his related book is:

“ Live with the bomb. The Current Prospects for Limiting the Risk of Nuclear War "

Weizsäcker recognized the possibility of making atomic bombs even before the beginning of World War II . At the beginning of the war, he hoped to gain political influence through the uranium project to research nuclear fission . Later he said “ only by divine grace ” he was saved from the temptation to actually build the German atomic bomb. In the post-war period he said:

“ Not optimism, but hope I have to offer. "

The expression is also related to crisis areas and other contexts:

• " Mail from Mumbai: Learning to Live with the Bomb "
• " Living with the disease "
• " Living with a wheelchair "

The gods fight in vain with stupidity.

Death of John Talbot on the battlefield

The poet Friedrich Schiller had this sentence of resignation said in his drama The Maiden of Orleans Talbot , the general of the English.

Lionel, an English leader, says to Fastolf, another English leader:

“ I can't stay. - Fastolf, take the general
to a safe place, we can
not hold ourselves at this post much longer.
Our people are already fleeing from all sides,
the girl is irresistible - "

Talbot replies:

" Nonsense, you win and I have to go down!
The gods fight in vain with stupidity.
Sublime reason, bright daughter of the
divine head, wise founder of the
building of the world, leader of the stars,
who are you when you have to plunge into the abyss with the drunkard,
tied to the tail of the mad steed of absurdity,
shouting fainted
! "

Talbot was killed on July 17, 1453 at the Battle of Castillon , the final decisive defeat of the English in the Hundred Years War .

With a laughing and a crying eye

These idioms are the words of the king in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet , with which he announces to the court his marriage to the widow of his brother, who was murdered by him:

“ Therefore our sometime sister…
Have we…
With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
…
Taken to wife. "

" So we took our former sister
... with a serene, a wet eye
... for marriage. "

The phrase is used to express that something pleasant is connected with unpleasantness.

With angel tongues

The phrase “ to speak with the tongues of angels ” in the meaning of urgently speaking to someone goes back to a passage in the Bible in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians , in which Paul writes:

" Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγλλα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κνζμβ. "

“ If I spoke in the languages ​​of men and angels, but if I didn't have love, I would be booming ore or a noisy drum! "

The Luther Bible turns it into a phrase:

“ If I spoke with the tongues of men and angels and I didn't have love, then I would be tinkling ore or a ringing bell! "

Based on this passage from the Bible, the GDR songwriter Wolf Biermann called his volume of poetry, which was only allowed to appear in the West in 1968, “ With Marx and Engels tongues ”.

You can't shake hands with clenched fists.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said in 1971, referring to the conflict between India and Pakistan :

“ India wants to avoid war by all means, but it is not a one-sided matter, you cannot shake hands with clenched fists. "

English: " India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. "

With the failure of democracy in Pakistan, the spatially separated province of East Pakistan (later Bangladesh ) was suppressed by a military regime, so that millions of people fled to India. At the height of the refugee movement, 150,000 refugees a day crossed the border with India. The 9 million refugees created a humanitarian and financial emergency for the Indian government.

At the end of the year, the Indian army brought troops into defensive positions on the border with Pakistan. One day before the planned attack, Pakistan itself opened war by bombing Indian air bases. The timing was favorable for Indira Gandhi as the Pakistani military regime was the aggressor.

With God for king and fatherland

On March 17, 1813, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the appeal to my people , with which he finally took the lead of the patriotic current against Napoleon . He then also signed the ordinance drafted by General Scharnhorst on the organization of the Landwehr, which stated:

“ Every militant is designated as such by a cross made of white sheet metal with the inscription 'With God for King and Fatherland', which is attached to the front of the cap. "

As early as 1701, under the Prussian King Frederick I , the flags of various land militias bore the Latin inscription " Pro deo, rege et patria " ( For God, King and Fatherland ).

With man and horse and chariot, God smote them.

Medieval depiction of the train through the Red Sea

These are the opening lines of a song written by Ernst Ferdinand August from Berlin in 1813 after Napoleon's defeat in his Russian campaign :

“ It wanders around through snow and forest
The great, mighty French army.
The emperor on the run,
soldiers without discipline.
With man and horse and chariot,
God struck them like this. "

The quote comments on a complete defeat.

With umbrella, charm and bowler hat

With Umbrella, Charm and Bowler Hat is a British television series with the original title The Avengers . The two main actors had to solve unusual cases as agents. The male lead acted as a gentleman with an umbrella and bowler hat . His female colleague stood for charm .

An article on unconventional debt collectors takes up these words:

" With an umbrella, little charm, and black bowler hat, including a black suit in business man's style, but also disguised as a debtor-exposing hunchback bunny, with a relevant educational poster, artistically acting specialists commissioned by the creditor then attached themselves to the heels of the debtors named for them for a lot of money, in order to emphasize the repayment demands of their clients. "

To grow with his pound

Medieval illustration of the parable

The phrase is derived from the parable of the pounds entrusted to them in the Gospel of Luke , where it is important that the servants proliferate with the pound entrusted to them by their master .

" 23 Why didn't you put my money in the exchange bank? And if I had come, I would have asked for it with interest. 24 And he said to those standing by, Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds. 25 And they said to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. 26 But I say to you, to whoever has it will be given; but what he has will also be taken from him who has not. "( Lk 19,12-28  LUT )

With “ pound ” here, according to the original meaning, a unit of weight (of precious metal), but more precisely a certain amount (a mine ) of money, and “proliferate” means quite neutrally “to make a profit”. The pounds entrusted are to be understood as gifts or talents (see the similar story of the parables Mt 25 : 14–30  EU , which speaks of a talent instead of a mine ).

With reference to this parable, the question is raised on the website of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk whether Jesus wanted to teach his disciples a lesson in financial management. However, the message of this parable is:

“ Don't sleep through your time and your life, don't bury your talents, become who you are. No more and no less. The pound is both a gift and an obligation; whoever leaves it useless is living below its possibilities. "

use

• “ Schladming is proliferating with his pound. "
• “ Laupheim is rampant with its pounds. "
• “ Espalion… grows with its medieval townscape. "

At seventeen you still have dreams.

This is the title of a hit with which the American pop singer Peggy March achieved her international breakthrough at the German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden in 1965 . Peggy March was seventeen herself at the time. The song begins with the following verses:

“ At 17 you still have dreams,
then all the trees are still growing
in the heaven of love.
At 17 you can still hope that
the paths to
heaven of love are still open . "

The song title is now occasionally quoted in other contexts and with slight variations. An article about street children in Germany is headed with the words “ At 17 you hardly have any dreams ”, while the article “ At 17 you still have dreams. Women in the Indonesian Punk Scene “quotes the unchanged title.

The new time moves with us.

These words come from Hermann Claudius ' worker's song when we step from 'to side' written in 1916 , which begins with the following verses:

When we step side by side
and sing the old songs
and the woods reverberate,
we feel that it must succeed:
The new time
moves with us, the new time moves with us.

This song is sung today at the end of SPD party conventions and was first announced at the youth convention of the socialist workers' youth in Weimar in 1920. Above all, the line “ The new times are moving with us ” was perceived as a commitment.

The new era moves with us ... is the title of a book published by Ulrich Herrmann about the wandering bird in the German youth movement.

With all due respect, Mr President, you are an asshole.

Joschka Fischer , 1983

“ With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole. "Was an interjection by the Bundestag member Joschka Fischer on October 18, 1984 to the Bundestag Vice- President Richard Stücklen after he had excluded the member Jürgen Reents from the meeting because he had called Chancellor Helmut Kohl " ransomed by Flick ".

The Green MP Christa Nickels then tried to make a request to interrupt the session. When Stücklen kept interrupting her and finally turned off the microphone, Fischer protested loudly, whereupon Stücklen called him to order:

“ Honorable Member, please! I am calling you to order for the second time. Mr Fischer, I will exclude you from attending the next meeting! "

Fischer cursed as he went out: " With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole ", but apologized the next day for this statement, which all the German media reported in detail.

Fischer uses the upscale formula " with all due respect " for this insult , which means that the following statement should not offend anyone, in contrast to the vulgar language " asshole ", which is an obvious insult.

The subject of the debate was the policy of the Flick Group , which, according to reports from Welt am Sonntag and Der Spiegel, indirectly sent former CDU chairman Rainer Barzel 1.7 million D-Marks through a consultancy contract to help him waive the To compensate for the party chairmanship that Helmut Kohl took over.

With all due respect, I'm so free.

With these words, a brazen hermit in the picture story of Tobias Knopp approaches Wilhelm Busch . Adventure of a bachelor after the hiking bottle:

“ This Klausner, old and aged, steps
out of his stone housing .
And
he seriously lifts the hiking bottle from the buttons of his pocket .
'I' - as he speaks - '
my name is Krökel and the world is a disgust to me.
I don't care about anything.
With all due respect! I'm so free.' "

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The hermit repeats these words several times, expresses his disgust for the world and drinks Knopp's bottle empty.

Words are a great way to argue.

In the second scene in the study room of Goethe's drama Faust I , Mephistopheles , who is mistaken for Faust in this scene, says to the inexperienced student:

" Words are a great way to argue,
words to prepare a system,
words can be perfectly believed,
not an iota can be stolen from a word. "

The quote is used to criticize irrelevant disputes :

• “It is not only possible to argue with words, but nowadays also with abbreviations. "
• “ This is a wonderful point to argue about. "
• “ One can argue about taste. "

In the midst of peace we are attacked by the enemy.

Proclamation of the German Emperor Wilhelm II on August 6, 1914 at the beginning of the First World War .

Specifically, the emperor said:

“ They demand that we watch with crossed arms as our enemies prepare for a malicious attack; they do not want to tolerate our resolute loyalty to our ally, who is fighting for his reputation as a great power and with his humiliation also our power and Honor is lost.
So the sword must decide. In the midst of peace we are attacked by the enemy. So on! to the weapons! Every hesitation, every hesitation would be a betrayal of the fatherland. "

In the middle of life we ​​are surrounded by death.

These words come from an old hymn and go back to the Latin sequence Media vita in morte sumus .

For the German version, Martin Luther wrote a second and third stanza and a new melody:

“ In the middle of life we ​​are surrounded
by death.
Whom do we seek to help
us that we may be graced?
That is you, Lord, alone.
We regret our iniquity
, which has angered you, Lord.
Holy Lord God,
Holy Mighty God,
Holy Merciful Savior, you Eternal God,
Let us not sink into the bitter distress of death.
Kyrieleison. "

The song expresses the awareness of human transience and is often found on tombstones.

May this cup pass me by!

“ May this cup pass me by! "

In the Gospel according to Matthew , Jesus prays on the Mount of Olives in agony:

" Παρελθάτω ἀπ 'ἐμοῦ τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο · "

“ Father, if possible, let this cup pass me by. "

The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a representative of the Confessing Church , wrote in 1944 in his song "Von guten Mächten" in a letter from prison to his mother:

“ And if you hand us the heavy goblet, the bitter one
of suffering, filled to the highest edge,
we will gratefully take it
from your good and beloved hand without trembling . "

The Stuttgarter Zeitung explains this quote from the Bible in its dossier Bibelfest :

“ The goblet should pass me by. Anyone who has this sentence on their lips today often means it flippantly. The chalice can be a chore or the encounter with an unpleasant person. "

The background is explained further:

“ In Jewish culture, cups were passed around at thanksgiving or funeral ceremonies. Often the householder filled the cup for the others. By drinking together, one took part in the fate of the others. "

In the Old Testament, the chalice was also seen as a symbol of divine punishment, for example with the prophet Isaiah (51:17).

I would have wanted to, but I didn't dare to.

Those who refuse to give in to temptation for fear of punishment like to use this quote from Munich comedian Karl Valentin , which comes from the play The Oktoberfest . In this sketch, a woman talks about lightly dressed riders and says indignantly:

“ … The women are half naked on the guest upstairs, I was all red, my husband couldn't look either. "

Her husband specified this statement with the words:

“ I would have liked to, but I didn't dare to. "

Let them hate me if they only fear me.

Caligula

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ludwig Quidde

This saying goes back to the Roman tragedy poet Lucius Accius and was passed down by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero . According to Sueton's emperor biographies, Caligula is said to have often used this expression and said in Latin:

“ Oderint dum metuant. "

In some cases, Caligula tortured senators who were actually immune from the torture. When the wrong man was executed due to a mix-up of names, Caligula said he deserved it too. Similarly, he is said to have made the following statements about the Roman people:

“ If only the people of Rome had only one neck! [... so that I can strangle it all at once]. "

These quotes are, however, questionable; they served to express the character of the person pointedly.

Ludwig Quidde , editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung , as secretary of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, learned in April 1886 that Wilhelm II. As Crown Prince had sent a hand-signed photograph to Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , bearing Caligula's motto " oderint dum metuant ". He sent photographs with the same label to several friends. Quidde made this public at Easter 1894, when Wilhelm had been emperor for several years. For weeks there was no response, but when the Reichstag went on vacation, Quidde met two editors of the conservative Kreuzzeitung who asked him:

“ Caligula? what is that? Such a great Roman emperor? "

Soon afterwards, the Kreuzzeitung itself wrote about the Caligula , conjuring up a scandal at home and abroad. That this conservative newspaper wrote about it was because many Prussian aristocrats were angry with the emperor's extravagances. The reactions extended to Haiti . There the German government demanded satisfaction for the injustice that had befallen a German and underlined this demand with two training ships that were sent to Port-au-Prince . The government gave in, but the minister Solon Menes translated the Caligula and had it distributed among the population.

Quidde himself soon got into trouble with the prosecutor, but at first he could not be prosecuted for lese majesty . But years later he had to serve three months in prison in the correctional facility in Munich- Stadelheim because of the statement that it was “ ridiculous and political insolence ” to donate a commemorative medal to Emperor “ Wilhelm the Great ” .

Tomorrow is also a day.

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

This sentence is the life motto of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind , where it says in the original English as follows:

" Tomorrow is another day. "

Scarlett O'Hara says these words defiantly after Rhett Butler leaves her. In a review to continue the story, Tanja Beuthien writes in Stern:

“ That Scarlett O'Hara is sitting alone on her stairs forever and her defiant 'Finally, tomorrow is also a day' triggers an endless loop of longing that makes millions watch the almost four-hour tearful scraps with Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable over and over again. "

The quote is colloquial for We can do that tomorrow and is often quoted in this sense. So says the actress Barbara Wussow , who compares herself to Scarlett, in an interview with Tele 5 :

“ I also find Scarlett's motto 'tomorrow is still a day' wonderful. I wrote this sentence down in my diary. There are many things that you can't do today, and then you say to yourself: 'Tomorrow is another day, you don't have to do everything today.' "

Tomorrow, children, there will be something.

With these words begins a Christmas carol , the text of which is in the collection of poems, Songs for the Formation of the Heart (1795) by Karl Friedrich Splittegarb :

" Tomorrow, children, there will be something,
tomorrow we will be happy!
What a jubilation, what a life
will be in our house!
We'll wake up one more time,
Heisa, then it's Christmas Day! "

The beginning of the song is sometimes quoted to indicate an upcoming event. Erich Kästner satirizes the text in his Christmas carol, dry-cleaned :

" Tomorrow children, there won't be anything!
Only those who have got free gifts.
Mother gave you life.
That's enough when you consider it. "

Tomorrow, tomorrow, just not today, all lazy people say.

This saying goes back to the nursery rhyme Der Aufschub by the writer Christian Felix Weisse . There it says:

“ Tomorrow, tomorrow, just not today!
Always talk lazy people,
tomorrow! Today I want to rest,
tomorrow to grasp that teaching,
tomorrow to leave that mistake,
tomorrow to do this and that! "

The song ends with the encouraging words:

" Well then! Tomorrow as well as today there is a good deed
on every side
of me! "

At seven in the morning the world is still fine.

In the morning at seven the world is still in order (English: Morning's at seven ) is a 1965 novel by the British author Eric Malpass .

The novel begins on a foggy Sunday in November. A little boy was the first to wake up and set out on a tour of the house. In this way, the characters are gradually introduced.

The soccer player Sepp Maier changed this book title to:

“In the morning at seven the world is still in Dortmund. "

The early bird catches the worm

The proverb

The early bird catches the worm

is explained in the corresponding article and many would like to stick to the variation, which is a bit hearty:

Early bird gets the lead in the ass ,

to justify why they can't get out of bed.

And added: The morning hour has gold in your mouth, whoever sleeps longer stays healthy.

Tired I'm going to rest.

These words are the beginning of an evening prayer that the pastor's daughter and later nun Luise Hensel wrote and which begins as follows:

“ I'm tired, go to rest ,
close both eyes.
Father, let your eyes be
over my bed. "

Some funny variations on the beginning of the song are:

"I'm kangaroo tired,
close my pouch,
put my ears back so
that I can sleep better."

“I'm tired, go to rest,
cover my beer belly.
Lord God let the hangover be mine,
tomorrow won't be so terrible.
Give me thirst again tomorrow,
everything else is sausage to me. "

Multum, non multa

The Roman writer Pliny the Younger stated in a letter to a friend that for him the art of correct reading consists in reading a lot and thoroughly, but with careful selection of the reading material:

“ Aiunt multum legendum esse, non multa. "

“ They say you have to read a lot, but not many things. "

From this the sentence developed, which became common in the modified form Non multa, sed multum (“ Not many, but a lot ”).

Music is often not found beautiful because it is always associated with noise.

“ Music is often not found beautiful
because it is always associated with noise. "

This often used quote from the picture story The Mole by Wilhelm Busch came from a time when house music was much more common and there was still no electronic music reproduction:

" Schnarrang !! -
A begging musician's choir can be heard in his ear .
Music is often not found beautiful
because it is always associated with noise. "

This much used quote is used again and again when it comes to noise pollution from music. But it is also about other types of noise, which are referred to in legal parlance as " behavioral noise ".

In contrast to this one can put a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche , who once wrote:

“ For the lonely, noise is a consolation. "

Mother courage

Lotta Svärd goes to war with her husband

Mother Courage is the title character in Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children and is used as a name for a woman who, despite defeats in her avoidance, asserts herself through her vitality and gripping manner.

In Brecht's drama, set in the Thirty Years' War , the sutler Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, roams the war zones to do business and to secure a livelihood for herself and her three children. Because of the war she is earning from, she ends up losing all of her children.

In exile in Sweden, Brecht was inspired by the story of the Nordic sutler Lotta Svadt ( Lotta Svärd ) from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's Ensign Stahl . This reflects the type of maternal sutler who takes care of the soldiers in the Finnish-Russian war of 1808/09 .

Brecht took the name Courage (French: courage ) from Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's novel Detailed and wondrous description of the life of the arch fraudster and troublemaker Courasche, who uses the example of a gypsy to describe how the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War led to moral neglect. The figure of Libuschka also appears in the story the meeting at telgte of Grass on.

My home is my castle.

The saying often used My home is my castle ( My home is my castle. ) Is the transformation of a legal award by Sir Edward Coke , which addresses the problem of "Against Armed Go" finds the following:

"A person can gather friends and neighbors together to defend his house against those who rob or kill him or want to do violence to him in it."

In the third volume of his collection and interpretation of old English laws and court orders, Coke writes that a landlord must be allowed to defend himself and, together with friends and neighbors, defend his property by force of arms. He concludes his statement with the words:

" For a man's house is his castle. "

“ Because a man's house is his castle. "

This English maxim was also used in German in the variation My home is my castle and is quoted today to express that privacy is taboo for everyone else. But it is also used to express that the own home is designed and maintained with special effort.

Myne Fru de Ilsebill, don't want to be as I want to be.

Butt

This quote comes from the Low German fairy tale Vom Fischer und seine Frau from the collection of the Brothers Grimm . It means in standard German:

“ My wife, Ilsebill, doesn't want the way I would like. "

In this fairy tale, a fisherman is a butt , which he fished, his freedom, because this tells him that he was an enchanted prince. The fisher's wife, however, then repeatedly urges her husband to ask the Flounder to fulfill her wishes, which are more demanding from time to time. Reluctantly, the fisherman goes to the sea every time and calls the flounder with the words:

“ Manntje, Manntje, Timpe Te,
Buttje, Buttje in the sea,
myne Fru de Ilsebill
doesn't want to be as I want. "

The quote is used jokingly today when a man resignedly wants to say that his wife has a mind of her own.

The beginning of Günter Grass ' novel Der Butt was chosen as the most beautiful first sentence in German-language literature, which begins with the following words:

“ Ilsebill added salt. "

This first sentence combined elements of the old fairy tale of the fisherman and his wife Ilsebill with a résumé of the last centuries of history.

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