What is tear?

Famous quotes containing the word tear:

    She’s loose! She’ll tear the roof off!
    —Mark Hanna. Nathan Hertz. Nurse (Eileen Stevens)

    The drying up a single tear has more
    Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    The brown waves of fog toss up to me
    Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
    And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
    An aimless smile that hovers in the air
    And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)