| 156 | ʻAʻohe kā he lohe o ko pepeiao huluhulu? | Don’t your hairy ears hear? |
| | [Said in annoyance or disgust for disobedience or heedlessness. The ears are too full of fuzz to let sounds enter.] |
| 452 | Hānai holoholona, ʻaʻohe lohe i ka ʻohumu. | Feed animals and no complaints are heard. |
| | [A retort by one who is criticized for raising animals instead of children.] |
| 766 | He lohe ke ola, he kuli ka make. | To hear is life, to turn a deaf ear is death. |
| | [It pays to heed sound advice.] |
| 767 | He lohe ʻōlelo iā Kalehuawehe, he ʻike maka iā Kuaokalā. | Have only heard of Kalehuawehe, but have seen Kuaokalā. |
| | [That is only hearsay so I do not know much about it; but this I have seen and know about.] |
| 1081 | Hoʻokahi no ʻōlelo lohe a ke kuli. | The deaf hear but one kind of speech. |
| | [That is, the bad odor that results from breaking wind. The deaf, unable to hear, smell the foul odor and turn to see who the culprit is.] |
| 1229 | I lohe i ka ʻōlelo a hoʻokō, e ola auaneʻi a laupaʻi. | One who hears good counsel and heeds [it] will live to see many descendants. |
| 2114 | Ma Koʻolau e ʻōlelo ai, he lohe ma Kona. | Words spoken on the windward side are heard on the leeward side. |
| | [Said of anything spoken that travels very quickly through the land.] |
| 2435 | ʻO ka poʻe e ʻai ana i ka loaʻa o ka ʻāina he lohe ʻōlelo wale aʻe nō i ka ua o Hawaiʻi. | Those who eat of the product of the land merely hear of the rains in Hawaiʻi. |
| | [Said of absentee royal landlords who reap the gain but know nothing of the difficulties in the land where the toilers work.] |
| 2605 | Pau ka ʻike, pau ka lohe. | See no more, hear no more. |
| | [To be in a coma or in a state of unconsciousness.] |
| 2651 | Pilikia hoʻi kau a lohe mai. | Troubles that [do not] hear. |
| | [Serious trouble indeed.] |