Famous quotes containing the words word and/or deafness:
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning- bug and the lightning.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)