Ear Piercing Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:

    There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.
    Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
    Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Man know thy powers, and not observe thy size,
    The noble power in piercing reason lies,
    And reason conquers all, and rules the skies.
    Marcus Manilius (10 B.C.–A.D. 30)

    The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
    Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)