A Quote by Publilius Syrus

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.

Unknown

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

Leonardo da Vinci

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

Thomas Hood

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Jethro Tull

You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow

Adora Svitak

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

Anais Nin

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.

Yvor Winters

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Victor Hugo

One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge.

Robert Browning

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Glenn Greenwald

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

Anne Lamott

I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.

Jeremih

All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.