Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. — Samuel Johnson
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. — Leonardo da Vinci
Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not… — Leonardo da Vinci
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? — Juvenal
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in… — John Keble
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,… — William Cowper
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. — William Cowper
Where more is meant than meets the ear. — John Milton
What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long. — Russell Baker
Went in at the one ear and out at the other. — John Heywood
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. — Homer
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. — Philip James Bailey
I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing… — Augustus William Hare
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This… — James Shirley
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen
If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself.… — Thornton T. Munger
My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct… — Tom Coburn
The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would… — Teresa of Avila
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people… — Arthur Middleton
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. — Jean de la Bruyere
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never… — Orson Welles
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… — John Muir
With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ...… — Will Rogers

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