A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

Edwin Diamond

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Emily Murphy

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Joseph Hall

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.

Ajahn Chah

I had to hold my tongue from since, when I got here til when I was about 22 years old. I ain't holding my tongue no more. So it's best that I don't get no manager, don't get no promoter cos' they're the people tryna tell me what do.

Roy Jones Jr.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

Rumi

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

Robert Farrar Capon

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

David Abram

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

Evangeline Lilly

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

Frank Bettger

Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is beautiful? It is a passing fancy, but its effects can be permanent. Some have gone to such extremes that the ring had to be removed by surgery. The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve have declared that we discourage tattoos and also “the piercing of the body for other than medical purposes.” We do not, however, take any position “on the minimal piercing of the ears by women for one pair of earrings”-one pair only.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Walter Smith

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