High German Word

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

    ‘twas by making sweetbreads do
    I passed with such a high I.Q.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustained ... the science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle’s treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)