Foamfollower, Lord Foul's Bane
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
“If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
“And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.”
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9
In fiction
Fragment vi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
