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There's none so DEAF as those who will not hear
Similar to
there's none so BLIND as those who will not see.
Cf. mid 14th-cent. Fr.
il n'est si mavais sours que chuis ch'oër ne voeilt
, there is no person so deaf as the one who does not wish to hear.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. K4
Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother here nor see?
c
1570
Disobedient Child
C2
V
I perceyve by thys geare, That none is so deaf, as who wyll not heare.
1766
in
Papers
(1969) XIII. 18
I have not interfered in this Trial one word, only in my Applications to you and Mr. Foxcraft, both of which turn a deaf Ear: for none so deaf as those who will not hear.
1824
Book of Fallacies
I. v.
None are so completely deaf as those who will not hear.
1952
Hemlock & After
I. ii.
She would feebly and grumblingly attempt to reproduce something of the pursed-lipped, self-righteous matriarchy of her own girlhood home. ‘Penny wise, pound foolish,’ she would say, or ‘There's none so deaf as do not choose to hear.’
obstinacy
there's none so BLIND as those who will not see.
Cf. mid 14th-cent. Fr.
il n'est si mavais sours que chuis ch'oër ne voeilt
, there is no person so deaf as the one who does not wish to hear.
1546Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. K4
Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother here nor see?
c
1570
Disobedient Child
C2
V
I perceyve by thys geare, That none is so deaf, as who wyll not heare.
1766
in
Papers
(1969) XIII. 18
I have not interfered in this Trial one word, only in my Applications to you and Mr. Foxcraft, both of which turn a deaf Ear: for none so deaf as those who will not hear.
1824
Book of Fallacies
I. v.
None are so completely deaf as those who will not hear.
1952
Hemlock & After
I. ii.
She would feebly and grumblingly attempt to reproduce something of the pursed-lipped, self-righteous matriarchy of her own girlhood home. ‘Penny wise, pound foolish,’ she would say, or ‘There's none so deaf as do not choose to hear.’
obstinacyA DEAF husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
1578First Fruits
26
There neuer shal be chiding in that house, where the man is blynd, and the wife deafe.
1637
Pleasant Dialogues
VI. 334
Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, When the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.
1710
Proverbs
338
The Husband must not See, and the Wife must be blind.
1940
Body, Boots & Britches
xix.
When the wooing is o'er and the maid wed .. the neighbours will observe .. ‘A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.’
1988
Washington Times
8 July E2
Nothing brings out advice mongers like a summer wedding … ‘A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.’
harmony;
marriage
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