Keyword: Listening

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.

When you talk to him, he looks at you and grins and grins and nods and nods and appears to be the world's best listener, until you realize he is not listening at all.

(1933 – ) television & radio host

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president

Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention.

(1955 – ) American actor, musician & playwright

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

You sit there and you talk about yourself for an hour straight, and the other person listens to everything you say; it's like I'm the guy on a date.

(1964 – ) Canadian stand-up comedian, actress & television host

The opposite of talking isn't listening; the opposite of talking is waiting.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

(1923 – 1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist & playwright