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«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
«A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.»
«Authentic treachery is found when we abandon ourselves, becoming deaf to the whispers of our spirits and blind to the powerful potential therein»
«Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.»
«Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.»
«If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.»
Author: Russian Proverb | Keywords: deaf, deaf to, empty, pocket
«If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb»
Author: Turkish Proverb | Keywords: deaf-and-dumb, deaf, dumb
«Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.»
«A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: deaf
«I'd thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.»
Author: J. D. Salinger (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: deaf, mutes