High German Word

Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:

    “... by and large, wife-changing and high office are not compatible. This inequity accounts for the many dull women in Washington and is the cause of much smug complacency on the distaff side of political marriages.”
    —Barbara Howar (b. 1934)

    “Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
    Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
    Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
    —John Steinbeck (1902–1968)