Or do you choose to be a schlemiel all your life?"

Where does this schlemiel get the idea he's an actor and a playwright?

This poor schlemiel would not ever get to where he was going, the fool, saving time at the cost of his life.

Each day, Schlemiel paints less than he painted the day before.

Anyone unable to keep from dropping his toast at all is a schlemiel, someone who can't do anything right.

Whoever this poor schlemiel was, that was one hell of a way to die.

Our annual silent auction will be held at two performances of "Schlemiel!

In his own eyes, Bloom, 57, is still provincial, unworldly - a schlemiel.

He's a schlemiel, you hear what I'm saying?

He is a schlemiel of the subject.

After she escapes, the shy schlemiel discovers she's stolen his wallet.

That is precisely why, lawyers say, the Schlemiel Strategy backfires.

But there have been times recently, he has said sadly, when a more modest epitaph crossed his mind: "Schlemiel."

I am a pure schlemiel, with no string attached."

Why does Molly's wonderfulness always serve to emphasize the moral and sentimental deficiencies of her schlemiel husband?

Did your social-studies teacher ever explain what job this schlemiel Guiteau wanted in the first place?

"All I am, Gunther, is an American schlemiel playing spy."

The schlemiel, Brook explains, is an anti-hero in whose humiliation the audience finds supreme pleasure.

One type is the Bellovian Hero, often described as a schlemiel.

When he discovered the error, the shopkeeper, who happened to be Jewish, apologized and said, "Call me a schlemiel."

I saw the item, but my eye was caught by the 'c' in schlemiel and schlimazel.

When he is asked why, Schlemiel complains that it is because each day he gets farther away from the paint can.

Skulnik knew exactly what he was in comedy: "I play a schlemiel, a dope.

To inspire a single camper, she would instead talk to a group of children, sometimes with the admonishment, "Don't be a Schlemiel."

Both on film and in life, he has created the image of a brainy, neurotic, sexually frustrated New York schlemiel.

It was like her book about Peter Schlemihl, the boy who sold his shadow to the devil for gold.

Schlemihl and Spikher travel together and torment each other.

In the summer of the eventful year, 1813, he wrote the prose narrative Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow.

On this version of the show, he is known as "Schlemihl," a Yiddish word for a "habitual bungler".

Schlemihl (1936)

An online modern translation of 'Peter Schlemihl'

He decided upon a career in the film industry, and edited his first film, Der Schlemihl, in 1931.

Der Schlemihl (1931)

Peter Schlemihl, a German Story (Translation, 1824)

Peter Schlemihl, Ballet (1965)

Schlemihl (ein Symphonisches Lebensbild) for tenor and orchestra (composed 1912)

Hartmann Schmige also wrote the musical Schlemihl in 1987 together with Christian Rateuke.

Řezníček's symphonic poem Schlemihl (1912) can be seen as a direct parody of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben.

The character Peter Schlemihl is referenced by Imre Kertész in his 2003 novel Liquidation (Felszámolás).

Yet when the devil wants to return his shadow to him in exchange for his soul, Schlemihl, as the friend of God, rejects the proposal and throws away the bottomless wallet besides.

Peter Schlemihl and his lost shadow are mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story, "The Intelligence Office" (in Mosses from an Old Manse).

In the story, Schlemihl sells his shadow to the Devil for a bottomless wallet (the gold sack of Fortunatus), only to find that a man without a shadow is shunned by human society.

In addition to being a musician and the editor of Nietzsche's writings and letters, he worked as a writer under various pseudonyms, including: Ludwig Mürner, Peter Schlemihl, Petrus Eremitus.

A combination of Don Quixote, Peter Schlemihl, Felix Krull and Joseph K., Lucas tilts at windmills, falls on his face, cons people out of money and keeps getting arrested.

Schlemihl, Symphonisches Lebensbild für Tenor & Orchester; Raskolnikoff (Schuld und Sühne, eine Phantasie-Ouvertüre).

Peter Schlemihl (opera based on the fairy tale Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte by Adelbert von Chamisso, was presented on stage in 1908 at Ludwigsburg)

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote Peter Schlemihl into his 1815 story A New Year's Eve Adventure, which is mostly about Erasmus Spikher, who gave away his reflection to the temptress Giuletta.

The motif of the lost shadow belongs to The Extraordinary Adventures of Peter Schlemihl, by Adalbert Chamisso (Adalbert de Chamisso de Boncourt, 1781-1838), a German Romantic writer of French origin.

Ludwig Tieck has utilized the legend in his Phantasus, and Adelbert von Chamisso in his Peter Schlemihl; and Ludwig Uhland left an unfinished narrative poem entitled Fortunatus and his Sons.

Of the two plays, both scored for string trio, "Hero and Leander" by the American Marti Epstein, with unusual abstract "figures" depicting the characters, made a stronger impression than Susanne Erding Swiridoff's more conventionally abrasive "Marvelous Tale of Peter Schlemihl."

You're also a schmendrick, a schlemiel, and a schlemazel."

Mr. Fox, in ogre costume, says it could be worse: his mother might have named him Schlemazel or Schlemiel.

Although he never joins in the teasing, Ron Swanson describes Jerry as both the "schlemiel" and the "schlemazel" of the office, meaning he's both a klutz and the victim of the universe's contempt.

I mean, just look at it logically: Who, in all the great North Country, would be the most likely one to go wandering around dis- guised as a schlemazel peasant, supporting Alfar's policies with great verve and enthusiasm, and would have authority to command his soldiers?"

Don't be surprised, then, to hear music by Carole King, Harry Chapin and Irving Berlin, and stories that are even older, like "The Little Red Hen" and "Mazel and Schlemazel," a Yiddish folk tale adapted from a translation by Isaac Bashevis Singer.