Poor Eyesight Quotes

• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  Kate Smith

  Light, Hair, Sight

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• I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

  Ellen Hollman

  Glasses, World, Imagine

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• I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

  Margaret Deland

  Law, Ought, Spectacles

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Should the beholder have poor eyesight, he can ask the nearest person which girls look good. Beauty is in the hand of the beer holder. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  Al Bernstein

  Girl, Eye, Heart

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