Ear Piercing Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:

    “Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “‘Line in nature is not found;
    Unit and universe are round;
    In vain produced, all rays return;
    Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
    As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
    A shudder ran around the sky;”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
    —Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)