An empty belly hears nobody. [ Proverb ]
And Apollo hears when invoked. [ Virgil ]
Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least. [ Wordsworth ]
Every one hears only what he understands. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He that speaks sows, he that hears reaps. [ Proverb ]
Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. [ William Shakespeare ]
He hears but half who hears one party only. [ Eschylus ]
The eternal talker neither hears nor learns. [ Proverb ]
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind. [ Pope ]
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]
He who hears but one bell, hears but one sound. [ Proverb ]
Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]
He passes sentence before he hears the evidence. [ Proverb ]
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]
Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]
If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. [ F. A. Durivage ]
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. [ Cicero ]
Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. [ Lavater ]
The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]