Famous quotes containing the words general and/or von:
“Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,—shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)