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"deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales)" »Prince Phillip
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"The past is a guide post, not a hitching post." »L. Thomas Holdcroft
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"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb." »Joseph Joubert
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"The main difference in the speed of recovery between Argentina in post-2001 and Thailand in post-1997 crises is the exports. Fiscal discipline is necessary but not sufficient without export-driven economic growth. Too much debt can result in prolonged stagnation similar to the Japanese lost-decade of 1990s. With inflation risk on the rise, we could see more socioeconomic troubles and political unrest in economies with thin middle class. 2011-2012 will be challenging for many policy makers." »Med Jones
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"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the post Office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the post Office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity." »Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington
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"post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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"asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." »Christopher Hampton
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"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind." »German proverb
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." »Mark Twain
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"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." »Thomas Fuller
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"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf." »Thomas Fuller
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read." »Mark Twain
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"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love." »Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"“That said, having seen the decreased value of many universities’ endowments, we are seeing and will see more universities enforcing patents. And in a post-eBay world, universities can argue that they are entitled to an injunction.”" »Yar Chaikovsky
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"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound." »Helen Keller
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"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?" »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." »Walter Lippmann
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"If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality." »Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail
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