Eye Quotes - Page 6

• Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Clever, Men, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.69

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Garden, Views

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Your Beautiful

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Creator

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

  Thomas Fuller

  Power

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• Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Trying, Looks, Sincerity

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• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  Octavio Paz

  Poetry, Ears, Reading Books

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

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• And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

  Donald Cargill

  Inspirational, Live By, Glorious

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• But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Clothes, People, House

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

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• The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Kissing, Soul, Friendship Love

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• Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Deceit, Daring

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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.161

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• The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Disbelievers, Assured

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• Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

  Sara Shepard

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Sleep

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• My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.

  Emo Philips

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Men

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• In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

  Martina McBride

  Family, Wise, Daughter

  Song: In My Daughter's Eyes, Album: Martina, 2003

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• One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

  Loren Eiseley

  Animal, Reflection, Pet

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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• I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Sea, Feet

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Long

  Sonnet 18

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• To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

  Aileen Fisher

  Mistake, Cat, Ears

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• If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Sight, Magic, Skins

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• The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

  Tom Coburn

  Needs, Favors, May

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Exercise, Shoes

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