“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”

“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”

“You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason.”

“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”

“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”

“If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.”

“Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite”

“The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.”

“I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall…"
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.”

“Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.”