A thick skin is a gift from God.
--Konrad Adenauer
All parts of the human body get tired eventually- except the tongue.
--Konrad Adenauer
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
--Konrad Adenauer
As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.
--Konrad Adenauer
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
--Konrad Adenauer
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
--Konrad Adenauer
God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.
--Konrad Adenauer
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
--Konrad Adenauer
I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
--Konrad Adenauer
I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.
--Konrad Adenauer
In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
--Konrad Adenauer
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
--Konrad Adenauer
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
--Konrad Adenauer
To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.
--Konrad Adenauer
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
--Konrad Adenauer
When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.
--Konrad Adenauer
When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.
--Konrad Adenauer
You have to take people as they are because there are no others.
--Konrad Adenauer
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