Quotes
Quotes about Eyes
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.
Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
Fear of God before their eyes.
For we know the world to exist only by our seeing it. You shut eyes in a man's death and in a sense you kill the universe
For the day may come, some thousand years hence, when even the works of Ben Jonson will be read little, but the bright eyes of Ben Jonson will flash out here and there in a breathtaking felicity of phrase from the green Eden of God's own book that may never die.
Women will ever go for the experienced man. They can oft see experience in a man's eyes
I was creating man afresh, planting him in a garden with clean white body and the innocent eyes of a deer. But he would not stay there: he must needs leap out to his plotting and blood-letting and sniggering nastiness
It is faith in beauty that is eternal, so long as there are eyes to see it
Remember that life is not a right but a gift. And now the gift is removed. Be thankful that you have savoured that gift. March into the dark with erect hands, eyes open
He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
