Glasses Quotes

• When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Real, Frost

  "The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Love, Wine, Kissing

  "The Book of Embraces" by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage, 1991.

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• I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Life, Sports

  "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Men, Intellectual

  "News Item" l. 1 (1926)

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• Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Writing, Moon

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• He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

  James Allen

  Thinking, Secret, Environment

  Adam H. Mortimer, James Allen (2012). “The Secrets of as a Man Thinketh”, p.4, Cedar Fort

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• When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

  Gene Simmons

  Air, Looks, Suits

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• It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Marriage, Dog, Couple

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• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Ideas, Sober

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• I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

  Roddy Doyle

  Men, Different, Dublin

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• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wine, Gourmet, Meals

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  I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Workout, Lying, Drink

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• People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, People, Rose

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• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  Martin Mull

  Sports, Running, Drinking

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• Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Vision, Obscure

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

  Marie Laurencin

  Girl, Art, Beer

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

  Mary Matalin

  Balls, Looks, Way

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• I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  New Relationship, Past, Giving

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• I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

  Jennifer Sky

  People, Actors, Kind

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Trying

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

  William Temple

  Alcohol, Enemy, Firsts

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• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

  Augustus Hare

  Wise, Wisdom, Light

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• Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

  Owen Feltham

  Greatness, Perspective, Meditation

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.32

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