- Hertha: Pride goes before a fall. I'm telIing you. Be friendly on your way up. Because on your way down, you're gonna meet them aIl again. And they all come down sometime. Or something like that.
- Siggi Honka: There are preciseIy three reasons why people drink: First, to forget about the bad things. Second, to celebrate the good things. And third, when nothing's going on, to make things happen.
- Gerda Voss: What is that awful smell?
- Fritz Honka: It's the Greeks who live downstairs! It's their fault! Rotten migrant workers who don't even work. They cook horrible food 24 hours a day. Mutton and garlic, God knows what else.
- Willi: Why are the curtains closed?
- Herbert Nürnberg: So people don't see the sun. People don't drink when the sun is shining.
- Siggi Honka: Life's a barrel organ, and the Lord God turns the crank. We're aIl but dancers to His tune, and have our fate to thank.
- Gerda Voss: Can't say anything against that.
- Siggi Honka: Yeah, or this one:Life's a card game. If you want to pIay, you have to take the hand you're dealt.
- Fritz Honka: Yeah, my brother knows aIl the best sayings.
- Siggi Honka: Right. Like this one: Flowers are like people: the fatter, the dumber.
- Herbert Nürnberg: Nicknames here are like titIes. We have first- and second-cIass ones.
- Mann Im Anzug: And what's a first-class nickname?
- Herbert Nürnberg: Double names. SS Norbert, Tampon Günther, Bulgarian Harry. Rum-and-Coke Waltraut, Schnapps Uschi. Ernie the Nose, Ginny Max.
- Mann Im Anzug: How do you get a name like that?
- Herbert Nürnberg: He drinks gin morning, noon and night.
- Mann Im Anzug: And his name's Max?
- Herbert Nürnberg: No. Peter. Max since he brags to the max when he's drunk. That's Arne. We call him "Anus" and everybody Iaughs.
- Inge: What did you say...
- Fritz Honka: I could take you all night long, in every hole you got. Your cunt, your ass, and your ear.
- Soldaten-Nobert: Hey, the old lady who was here last time was reaIly horny. I took another one along recently, she was horny too. I fucked her in her armpits, between her elbows, in the back of her knee.
- Dornkaat-Max: Didn't she have a pussy?
- Soldaten-Nobert: You can make your cunt everywhere and nowhere. I could eat cunt Iike potato salad.