“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”

“Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as we speak.”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”

“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever then the poor body of Socrates should have been dragged away and haled by main force to prision! That ever hemlock should have been given to the body of Socrates; that that should have breathed its life away!—Do you marvel at this? Do you hold this unjust? Is it for this that you accuse God? Had Socrates no compensation for this? Where then for him was the ideal Good? Whom shall we hearken to, you or him? And what says he? "Anytus and Melitus may put me to death: to injure me is beyond their power." And again:— "If such be the will of God, so let it be.”

“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”