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Hearing: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.— O. W. HOLMES — Professor at the

Breakfast-Table. XI. Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 285.

Health consists with Temperance alone.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 81.

May be he is not well: Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 107.

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 38.

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. S.— THOMSON — Castle of Indolence. Canto II. St. 55.

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.— IZAAK WALTON — The Complete Angler. Pt. I. Ch. XXI.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.— JOHN WEBSTER — Westward Ho. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 345.

He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer ;- In short, there never was a better hearer.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 37.

Within a bony labyrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aërial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound. w..— ABRAHAM COLES — Man, the Microcosm ;

and the Cosmos. P. 51. None so deaf as those that will not hear.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.

Psalm LVIII. Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?— KEATS — Addressed to Haydon.

Sonnet X. Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.— GEORGE MACDONALD — Song. At The

Back of the North Wind. Ch. XXXIII. Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. C.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 275.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.— MILTON — Comus. L. 560.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.— MILTON — Il Penseroso. L. 120.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 78. Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 13. Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 318. They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.— SWIFT — Dingley and Brent.

Strike, but hear me.— THEMISTOCLES — Rollin's Ancient History. Bk. VI. Ch. II.