Heard

Famous quotes containing the word heard:

“When the rock was hid by the surges’ swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell,
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And bless’d the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)

“Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“I have heard people eat most heartily of another man’s meat, that is, what they do not pay for.”
—William Wycherley (1640–1716)