Vain men never hear anything but praise.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

3657. None so deaf, as he that will not hear.

None is so deaf as those that will not hear.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

4503. The eternal Talker neither hears nor learns.

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.

What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?