Hears

Famous quotes containing the word hears:

“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
—Yiddish proverb.

“While he hears in every spring
How the birds do chirp and sing:
Or before the hounds in cry
See the hare go stealing by:
Or along the shallow brook,
Angling with a baited hook,
See the fishes leap and play
In a blessed sunny day:”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)