Famous quotes containing the word put:
“The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“The spendthrift rich never have enough, but the thrifty poor always have a little put by.”
—Chinese proverb.