Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn —Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Man muss handeln können, wie man will, um zu handeln, wie man soll —We must be able to act as we would in order to act as we should.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

To the division under Zeuxis he entrusted the attack upon the gate leading to Antioch; to Hermogenes that upon the walls near the temple of Castor and Pollux; and to Ardys and Diognetus the assault upon the docks and the lower town: in accordance with his understanding with his partisans in the town, whereby it had been agreed that, if he could carry the lower town by assault, the city also should then be put into his hands.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

the angry keeper cried, pushing on the shoulders of the big cook until Uncle Zenas had literally scraped his way through, and then the door was closed so violently that several particles of dust arose, causing Captain Eph to mutter: "It does seem as if the crew of this 'ere light had gone out of their heads this morning.
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

Und wer da klagt und Zweifel hegt an der Berechtigung unserer Kampfesführung, den fragen wir, wie er über Englands Aushungerungskrieg gegen Deutschland denkt, und ob er uns vielleicht zumutet, uns wehrlos aushungern zu {109} civilized nations in times of peace have been destroyed, and any one reproaching us for the lives sacrificed on the Lusitania should first justify himself and answer for us the question whether he frothed and fumed when Russian armies on East Prussian soil coolly and deliberately burned, murdered and committed outrage upon a peaceful population, men, women and children?
— from The Lusitania's Last Voyage Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915 by Lauriat, Charles Emelius, Jr.

The only person who ever succeeded in bowling him over on this point was Uncle Zib, hitherto referred to as the billionaire member of our family, who, after listening to a long and somewhat supercilious discourse from Adam on the subject of family, turned like a flash and asked: "And who pray was your grandfather?"
— from The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs

"I'm really hard up, Zeb," he explained, "an' I don't know where the next barrel of flour is to come from.
— from The Touch of Abner by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

Captain Corcoran and I have, in concert, thoroughly remodeled the sister-services—and upon so sound a basis that the South Pacific trembles at the name of Utopia! Zara: How clever of you! Fitz.: Clever?
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

"I've been thinking we might perhaps as well give it up, Zoe," he answered gravely, "at least for the present, until you are done working upon those very fascinating Christmas things."
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

Uncle Zachie had assured her of that.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

You know that your husband's "gift of gab" and unsparing zeal have won for him quite a position here, and he will doubtless receive some very good post when the session is over.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac