Ears Quotes - Page 19

• It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Islands, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.30

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• When fishes flew and forests walked
  And figs grew upon thorn,
  Some moment when the moon was blood
  Then surely I was born.
  With monstrous head and sickening cry
  And ears like errant wings,
  The devil's walking parody
  On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Blood, Wings

  1900 'The Donkey'.

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• Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Men, Example

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• Love, to her ear, was but a name,
  Combin'd with vanity and shame;
  Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
  Bounded within the cloister wall.

  Walter Scott

  Wall, Vanity, Names

  Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion: Canto Ii. - The Convent”

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• Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

  Josh Billings

  Tails, Ends, Take Time

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.152

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• The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Morning, Too Late, Solemnity

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• A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

  B. C. Forbes

  Horse, Business, Men

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• Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Tvs, Chaos

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• The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

  William H. Gass

  Drinking, Eye, Animal

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The tip no jewel needs to wear:
  The tip is jewel of the ear.

  Philip Sidney

  Jewels, Needs

  Sir Philip Sidney (1725). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.249

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.

  Martin Berkeley

  Science, Thinking, Experts

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