"Geld" Quotes from Famous Books
... evaporates and dies. Besides he would needs persuade us that it showed too much of a vain curiosity, effeminacy, and luxury, to convert what is wholesome into that which is palatable. For as the riotous, not the temperate, use to cut cocks and geld pigs, to make their flesh tender and delicious, even against Nature; just so (if we may use a metaphor, says he) those that strain wine geld and emasculate it, whilst their squeamish stomachs will neither suffer them to drink pure wine, nor their intemperance to drink ... — Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... nicht stehlen Geld noch Gut, Nicht wuchern Jemands Schweiss und Blut; Du solt aufthun dein' milde Hand Den Armen in deinem ... — The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther |