Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or people:
“Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense
It pays the hearing double recompense.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“He took as his motto: misfortune is good for something. How many good people have been able to say: misfortune is good for nothing!”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)