Ear Quotes

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

Heart, Soul, Lips

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Life, Power, Smile

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life, Dull, Tedious

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give, Few, Voice

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara

Death, May, Battle

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

True, Writer, Reader

The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Voltaire

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Bob Dylan

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
Mike Tyson

Person, Same, Off

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson

Leader, Ring, Voices

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

Marriage, Men, Pain

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone

Someone, Rejection, Rather

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Wanting, Consult

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller

Wife, Rather, Choose

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, Greatest, Point

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Life, Music, Feeling

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Simple, Everything, Here

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Dave Barry

Car, Nothing, Dogs

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige

Music, Power, Strength

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Lazy, Bored, Unexpected

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
Chief Joseph

Women, Great, Men

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster

Noise, Beethoven, Sublime

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

Music, Heart, Point

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Music, Gogh, Van

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

Marriage, Men, Pain

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
William Jennings Bryan

Heart, Rather, Speech

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles Lamb

Off, Laws, Intellect

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy

Pain, Both, Tongue

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau

Nose, Musical, Pieces

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