Ears

Famous quotes containing the word ears:

“The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“I press not to the quire, nor dare I greet
The holy place with my unhallowed feet;
My unwashed Muse pollutes not things divine,
Nor mingles her profaner notes with thine;
Here humbly at the porch she listening stays,
And with glad ears sucks in thy sacred lays.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

“Princes have big ears which hear far and near.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)