"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all." - Democritus of Abdera, fragment

"Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Gardner, Herb

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)

"My girlfriend says I never listen to her. I think that's what she said." - Sather, Drake

"The first duty of love is to listen." - Tillich, Paul