Als / Than Bedingung / Condition Beruf / Profession Dichter / Poet Lieber / Rather
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
My profession is called record production.
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
I prefer to die rather than eat beef.