A Quote by Stephen Fry

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

Stephen Fry

Quote Topics

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Quote Author

Stephen Fry
British - Comedian
Born: August 24, 1957

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

Nick Vujicic

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Quincy Jones

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

Mary Kay Ash

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

Joshua Harris

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Zeno of Citium

I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

Johnny Reid

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Josh Bowman

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Benjamin Disraeli

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

Lauren Child

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

Terri Farley

Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

Anne Frank

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

Tibor Fischer

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

Dean Martin

The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.