Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

- Heinrich Heine

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

- Heinrich Heine

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

- Heinrich Heine

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

- Heinrich Heine

Atheism is the last word of theism.

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

- Heinrich Heine

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me; that's his business.

- Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

- Heinrich Heine