“Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.” LittlesUseAgeFacesNightLeftMemoriesBloodMinesEarsWinterSnowDullLampsDeafConsumingFadingSapDeaf Ears Book:The Comedy of Errors Source: The Comedy of Errors
“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” KnowsMenSoulDiesLeftVisionTruth IsEternalEarsTragedyRaisesStormMortalitySpectatorsFurySailor Author:George Santayana
“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.” IfsMindEyeLeftEmotionSpeechMajorsEarsOccasionsExecutionFascinationImmuneHorrific Author:Michael Foot
“Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.” GivingMayMeanMadeAbleLeftTheoryKeysOughtEarsNotesBarsHolesMathematicalTunesStringsArchitectTwistedBeamWorkmen Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.” ThinkingScienceLeftEarsExpertsSections Author:Martin Berkeley