Famous quotes containing the words ears and/or pierced:
“The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in
a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis’e-ra, she smote off his
head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 25–26)