German Elements

Famous quotes containing the words german and/or elements:

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

    “But all subsists by elemental strife;
    And Passions are the elements of Life.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)