High German Word

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

    So in majestic cadence rise and fall
    The mighty undulations of thy song,
    O sightless bard, England’s Monides!
    And ever and anon, high over all
    Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong,
    Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

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

    The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning- bug and the lightning.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)