Famous quotes containing the words tells and/or ben:
“These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the senses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)