Heard

Famous quotes containing the word heard:

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

““Lawk a mercy on me,
This is none of I!

“But if this be I,
As I do hope it be,
I have a little dog at home
And he knows me;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was an old woman, as I’ve heard tell (l. 23–28)

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)