Ears Quotes - Page 18

• Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Hands, Temptation

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Confused, Bells

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.416, Modern Library

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• I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

  P. W. Botha

  Play, People, Fur

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

  F. S Flint

  Heart, May, My Heart

  "In the Net of Stars". Book by Frank Stuart Flint, 1909.

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• I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

  Hanshan

  Song, Book, Home

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• It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

  Eric Linklater

  Wall, Ordinary, Half

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• farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Farewell, Monsters

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.311, Tuttle Publishing

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• Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Eye, Fire

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• Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears - or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.

  Esther Hicks

  Party, Law Of Attraction, Cells

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• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Ties, Necks

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• It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Fall, Littles, Comfort

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.18

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

  William Howard Adams

  Eye, Garden, Long

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• Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Eye, Compassion

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• Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Advice

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• Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

  Steven J Lawson

  Home, Heart, Men

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

  William Crookes

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

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• There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

  Allan Gurganus

  Pages, Kind, Heartbeat

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Eye, Unsatisfied

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Self Harm, Way, Firsts

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.40, Rudyard Kipling

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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Girl, School, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.186, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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