„You're short on ears and long on mouth.“

„You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason.“

—  Ron Kaufman American author and consultant 1956

Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)

„We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Quelle: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.

„Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.“

—  Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)

„there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Also sprach Zarathustra

Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

„I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall…"
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.“

—  Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

Quelle: Vampire Academy

„Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite“

—  Stephen R. Donaldson, buch Lord Foul's Bane

Foamfollower, Lord Foul's Bane

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

—  Zeno of Citium ancient Greek philosopher -334 - -263 v.Chr

As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 23.
Variant translation: The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

„The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.“

—  Cormac McCarthy, buch Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

„Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.“

—  Steven Wright American actor and author 1955

„The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.“

—  Jean-Dominique Bauby, buch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4), p. 82

„Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.“

—  Robert Hunter American musician 1941 - 2019

"Box of Rain"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)

„The days are long, but the years are short.“

—  Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966

Quelle: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

„Short on money, long on hope“

—  Kim Edwards Author, educator 1958

„Short on glamour and long on tragedy.“

—  Quentin Reynolds American journalist and war correspondent 1902 - 1965

Describing World War II in his autobiography, By Quentin Reynolds (1963).

„Life is short, but the years are long.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, buch Methuselah's Children

Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)

„Art is long, life is short.“

—  Horace Roman lyric poet -65 - -8 v.Chr

Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
Original: (la) Ars longa, vita brevis.

„Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch Lady Midnight

Quelle: Lady Midnight

„Art indeed is long, but life is short.“

—  Andrew Marvell English metaphysical poet and politician 1621 - 1678

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line
Variante: "Art is long, and time is fleeting." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1839).

„What is the short meaning of the long speech?“

—  Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein

Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)