Ears Quotes

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When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank… — Neil Young
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I… — Anne Stevenson
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. — John Milton
The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. — Ronald Reagan
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
See with your ears and hear with your eyes. — Ken Kesey
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble… — William Shakespeare
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Princes have big ears which hear far and near. — Elizabeth I
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the… — Henry David Thoreau
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. — Henry David Thoreau
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming… — John Chancellor
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare
Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. — Marsilio Ficino
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to… — Alexander Pope

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