High German Word

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

    It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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

    A gentleman’s word is like a touch of a whip to a racehorse.
    Chinese proverb.