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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 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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"Listen or your tongue will keep you 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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"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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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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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." »Mark Twain
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read." »Mark Twain
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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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"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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"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 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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