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  • Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. -- George Herbert
  • They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby! -- Ben Affleck
  • Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear. -- Philip Doddridge
  • Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. -- Francois Rabelais
  • On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes. -- Morrie Ryskind
  • He has Van Gogh's ear for music. -- Billy Wilder
  • The ear is the avenue to the heart. -- Voltaire
  • Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -- Robert South
  • The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that. -- Louis Tomlinson
  • Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -- William Shakespeare
  • Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler
  • Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. -- Joan Didion
  • Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. -- John C. Crosby
  • Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner
  • I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. -- Abba Eban
  • No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. -- Henry Taylor
  • 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
  • Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. -- Ralph Ellison
  • 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
  • God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. -- Max Lucado
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. -- Peter Oliver
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. -- Max Heindel
  • I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Opinions need a willing ear. -- John McAfee
  • [F]ear is a great ally. -- David Gemmell
  • I learn my songs by ear. -- Kate Smith
  • Noise: a stench in the ear. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Where the eye divides, the ear connects. -- John Luther Adams
  • Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind. -- Arlene Croce
  • Spread your ear pollution far and wide. -- Billy Squier
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  • An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. -- Zora Neale Hurston
  • I'm kicking new flava in ya ear! -- Craig Mack
  • I have a good ear for languages. -- Harry Dean Stanton
  • I have Van Gogh's ear for music -- Stephen Fry
  • Music is the eye of the ear. -- Thomas Draxe
  • Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear. -- Andrei A. Gromyko
  • To recognize bullshit, nose is better than ear. -- Toba Beta
  • The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear -- William Shakespeare
  • Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear. -- Andrei Gromyko
  • Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. -- Francesco Guicciardini
  • A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. -- William Shakespeare
  • The ear writes my poems, not the mind. -- Stanley Kunitz
  • It's an ear job, not an eye job. -- Donald T. Regan
  • What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? -- Juvenal
  • The road to the heart is the ear -- Voltaire
  • Grammar is a piano I play by ear. -- Joan Didion
  • I took the right sow by the ear. -- Robert Walpole
  • Where more is meant than meets the ear. -- John Milton
  • Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. -- Earl Derr Biggers
  • What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? -- Abraham Verghese
  • Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. -- Francis Quarles
  • Great music is in the ear of the beholder. -- Noel Gallagher
  • I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder. -- Mark Potok
  • It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. -- Art Blakey
  • Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. -- William Shakespeare
  • He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. -- Stephen King
  • The goal of prayer is the ear of God. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. -- William Shakespeare
  • Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. -- Benedict of Nursia
  • The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. -- W. H. Auden
  • Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. -- Homer
  • We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. -- Blaise Pascal
  • The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye. -- Herodotus
  • Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller
  • We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids! -- R. Murray Schafer
  • Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining. -- Gene Hackman
  • I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. -- Diane Cilento
  • The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. -- Horace
  • Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. -- Edmond Jabes
  • Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool. -- Jethro Tull
  • Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. -- Isaac Barrow
  • The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Songs of Thy beloved are played into every ear of existence. -- Jamil Hussain
  • My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. -- Madeleine Peyroux
  • What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes. -- Harry Houdini
  • Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. -- Mason Cooley
  • This feels like a Steve Bannon whispering in [Donald Trump's] ear. -- Chuck Todd
  • The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. -- John Legend
  • On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. -- Lord Byron
  • Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The earth's a door, if you press your ear against it. -- David Mitchell
  • Went in at the one ear and out at the other. -- John Heywood
  • Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -- Anne Sexton
  • Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice... -- Khalil Gibran
  • People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes -- Martin Luther
  • I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.... -- Richard Lewis
  • The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. -- Maya Angelou
  • You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. -- Jonathan Swift
  • For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet. -- Astor Piazzolla
  • Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. -- Joseph Joubert
  • The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. -- Francis Quarles
  • And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. -- Lord Byron
  • What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment? -- Steven V. Roberts
  • Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world. -- Doris Lessing
  • In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort. -- Abraham Verghese
  • Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune. -- Kenneth Branagh
  • I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones. -- Nina Simone
  • But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. -- William Cowper
  • The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. -- Amy Clampitt
  • It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations. -- Publilius Syrus
  • The best way to thaw a frozen turkey? Blow in it's ear. -- Johnny Carson
  • Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now. -- Kiera Cass
  • He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same. -- Kiera Cass
  • I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire! -- Bobby Hull
  • The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me. -- Drew Carey
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