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Quotes about Eyes


Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

George Chapman

Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel De Cervantes

Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?

John Keats

Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.

Horace Mann

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Hannah More

Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs?

William Dean Howells

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

Robert Anonymous

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Thomas W. Higginson

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

William Shakespeare

Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

John Keats

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.

Arab Proverb

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

Sir Walter Raleigh

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Isaac Watts,

Isaac Watts

O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-Beens, These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.

William Ernest Henley

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

Howard Zinn

For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,) With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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