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Quotes about Eye


From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

Hesiod

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Seneca

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Plutarch

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

Diogenes Laërtius

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Diogenes Laërtius

It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Old Testament

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Old Testament

His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Old Testament

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.

Old Testament

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Old Testament

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee.

Old Testament

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Old Testament

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.

Old Testament

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.

Old Testament

The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Old Testament

The hearing ear and the seeing eye.

Old Testament

The eye is not satisfied with seeing.

Old Testament

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

Old Testament

Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.

Old Testament

The light of the body is the eye.

New Testament

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

New Testament

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