Ears quotes and words of wisdom

"FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse"s tail on the entrails of a cat."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"Heard it through the grapevine."
Proverb


"I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes."
Richard Steele


"Melody is a form of remembrance.... It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
Gian-Carlo Menotti


"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
Herodotus


"There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear."
Unknown


"There is no greater loan that a sympathetic ear."
Frank Tyger


"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point."
Maria Callas


Interesting Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.Arthur C. Clarke - English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)