German Soldier

Famous quotes containing the words german and/or soldier:

“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)