LISTENING

Related Subjects: Attention, Ears, Spying

1. But yet she listen'd—'tis enough—
   Who listens once will listen twice.—BYRON, Mazeppa
   

2. And listens like a three years' child.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

3. It takes a great man to make a good listener.—ARTHUR HELPS, Brevia
   

4. Listen, my children, and you shall hear.—LONGFELLOW, Tales of a Wayside Inn
   

5. Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike,
   The mistocles said, "Strike, if you will, but hear."—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

6. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.—PLUTARCH
   

7. Hear a' parties.—Proverb
   

8. To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.—Proverb
   

9. And this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.—SHAKESPEARE,The Taming of the Shrew