(326 quotes found)
“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.”
Maya Angelou
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
William Shakespeare
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland
“But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.”
“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." --Orm Pludge”
Ambrose Bierce
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.”
Clay Aiken
“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love”
Robert Tizon