Ears Quotes

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

I learn my songs by ear.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.