In my opinion, the best quatrains and short poems were still written by Heinz Erhardt. They are suitable for "young and old" and remain timeless. I've used many of them as toasts and heard them from others. For your party planning it is worth saving the page as a shortcut!
 
 

In four lines

Something to say in just four lines
it may seem easy, but it is hard!
You just have to look it up:
most poets needed more...

 

A rhino

A rhino and a dry horn
walked through the desert
then the dry horn stumbled,
and the rhino said: "You see!"

 

The rock

When a rock falls from your heart
so he falls on your foot promptly!
This is how it is in the world:
a sorrow goes, a sorrow comes...

 

Full of gentleness

The expressions are full of gentleness
and full of goodness is the soul,
they are always ready to serve
therefore they are called camels.

 

tell money

I find people who talk about their money
and those who flaunt their spirit
and those who first pray and then steal,
I find those, forgive me, sickening.

 

poet

There should be some poet
he must write poetry in order to live.
Is it always like this? no way,
some live to compose.

 

Too short

Hardly that you came into this world,
went to school, took your wife,
bought you children, money and property
already you're lying down because you died.

 

the snob

They handed me wines and beers
and schnapps and the like
these people can do it to me
not even reach the water!

 

wall saying

The work is often uncomfortable
It's not laziness, nevertheless:
the smallest ambition, if you have it,
is always preferable to laziness!

 

I don't like to think

I don't like to think about that kiss
that you gave me, Helene;
'Cause when I think of him
then I get tired and yawn.

 

after the end

Heard after the end of the long opera
I recently got the following criticism:
"What bothered me about this opera
that was the swan and the music!"

 

It should

There shouldn't be any taxes
no toothache, no trenches,
then life would be in this world
maybe even nicer than before!

 

I fetch from heaven

"I'll bring you the stars from the sky",
so we gladly swear to women.
But only at the beginning! fetch later
we don't even get coal from the basement.

 

Sometimes you trump

Sometimes you trump, sometimes you keep quiet,
sometimes you have to be cold as a amphibian,
man's life is like glasses:
you go through a lot.

 

nothing

"God made the world out of nothing"
so it says in the breviary
now I sometimes suspect
he doesn't care about her...

 

Obligation

You have to do a lot of things
do you want to do it, downright force it!
nevertheless, what you have achieved works
often compellingly easy and informal.

 

Too late

The old teeth went bad
and they began to tear them out
the new ones came just in time
to bite the dust with them.

 

Pleasing

There's definitely a lot of beauty in it
on the element, the wet,
because you can drink the water!
But you can also leave it alone

 

I don't roll

I don't roll over heavy problems
and don't talk about the time.
I don't know where I would end up
I just know I wouldn't get far.

 

The nose

Although the nose, whether pointed or flat,
two wings - nostrils - has,
she doesn't think much of flying after all;
she seems to be more into running.


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