Ears Quotes

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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears. — A. E. Housman
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. — Benjamin Disraeli
I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings. — Patrick Roy
I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire! — Bobby Hull
Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears. — Zig Ziglar
Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears. — Louise Suggs
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass… — Thomas Carlyle
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my… — Theodore Roethke
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of… — Igor Stravinsky
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are. — Lord Chesterfield
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before… — Albert Einstein
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace

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