Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:
“As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Have you never heard of German Becoming, of German Wandering, of the endless migratings of the German soul? Even foreigners know our word Wanderlust. If you like, the German is the eternal student, the eternal searcher, among the peoples of the earth.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“At evry word a reputation dies.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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