Heard

Famous quotes containing the word heard:

“That most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat that paradox!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“I heard the old, old men say,
“All that’s beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)