Listen with both ears, but speak with only one tongue.
Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.
When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get ...
I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in a cat's ear.
You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
Two sparrows on the same ear of corn are not long friends.
Truth is for the ears what smoke is for the eyes and vinegar for the tongue.
When the ear does not hear the eye will see better.
Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.
If you are going to steal bells plug your ears.
Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear.
The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears.
Even the sharpest ear cannot hear an ant singing.
I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from w...
Charlie: I pulled off early today. Took your advice, went to a doctor about this ear. He says 'You have an ear infection, ten dollars please'. So I says 'I told you I had an ear infection, you give me ten dollars!' Well that started an argument.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Roger Rabbit: [Crying] No wonder you hate me. If a toon killed my brother, I'd hate me too. Eddie Valiant: Come on, don't cry. I don't hate you. Roger Rabbit: Yes, you do. Eddie Valiant: No, I don't. Roger Rabbit: You do hate me. Otherwise, you would...
Words from the heart reach the heart, words from the mouth reach the ear.
Bathe other people's children but don't wash behind their ears.
When the government has no ears to listen with, then she has no head for governing.