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Unknown Author (top)
No one is listening until you fart.
- Unknown Author
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.
- Unknown Author
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
- Unknown Author


James Baldwin (top)
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James Baldwin


Margaret Cho (top)
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
- Margaret Cho


Sir Winston Churchill (top)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Sir Winston Churchill


Calvin Coolidge (top)
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge


Nick Diamos (top)
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
- Nick Diamos


Hugh Elliott (top)
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott


Epictetus (top)
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus


Robert Fulghum (top)
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
- Robert Fulghum


André Gide (top)
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
- André Gide


Ernest Hemingway (top)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway


Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes (top)
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes


Kin Hubbard (top)
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard


Eli Khamarov (top)
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.
- Eli Khamarov


Doug Larson (top)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Wilson Mizner (top)
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner


Plutarch (top)
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Plutarch


Native American Proverb (top)
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- Native American Proverb


Francois de la Rochefoucauld (top)
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld


Frank Tyger (top)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Frank Tyger


Katharine Whitehorn (top)
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
- Katharine Whitehorn