Colonel Von Krassow

Famous quotes containing the words colonel von, colonel and/or von:

    Maria: When we enter the Abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor.
    Colonel Von Trapp: What about this one?
    Maria: The poor didn’t want this one.
    Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

    The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    One needs only to get old to become milder; I don’t see anyone make a mistake I hadn’t also made.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)