 |
 | "And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men"s
eyes in April Are quicker than their brains." | |
 |
John Drinkwater
|
|
| "Father told me if I ever met a lady in a [very low-cut] dress like
yours, I must look her straight in the eyes." | |
|
Charles Windsor
|
|
| "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts." | |
|
Albert Einstein
|
|
| "Gardener"s, like everyone else, live second by second and minute by
minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us.
But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not
the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone
by." | |
|
Allen Lacy
|
|
| "Gardeners, like everyone else, live second by second and minute by
minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us.
But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not
the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone
by." | |
|
|
|
| "I shut my eyes in order to see." | |
|
Paul Gaugin
|
|
| "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to
think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all
the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world." | |
|
John Burroughs
|
|
| "I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday"s
eyes." | |
|
Dan Burrus
|
|
| "I was walking down the street wearing glasses when suddenly the
prescription ran out." | |
|
Steven Wright
|
|
| "If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you"re a one-eyed man in
a kingdom of the blind." | |
|
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
|
|
| "Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, And half shut
afterward." | |
|
Madeleine Scuderi
|
|
| "Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your
eyes!" | |
|
Earl Nightingale
|
|
| "Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." | |
|
Thomas Higginson
|
|
| "Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its
objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action
without being tired or satiated." | |
|
Joseph Addison
|
|
| "Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from
their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch." | |
|
John Dryden
|
|
| "Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt
on thee." | |
|
John Donne
|
|
| "She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry
skies; And all that"s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her
eyes: Thus mellow"d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day
denies." | |
|
Lord George Gordon Byron
|
|
| "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." | |
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
|
| "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." | |
|
Henri Louis Bergson
|
|
| "The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." | |
|
Publilius Syrus
|
|
| "The eyes are the gateway to the soul." | |
|
Herman Melville
|
|
| "The eyes are the window of the soul." | |
|
Proverb
|
|
| "The eyes have one language everywhere." | |
|
George Herbert
|
|
| "The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul." | |
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
| "The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." | |
|
John Vance Cheney
|
|
| "To dry one"s eyes and laugh at a fall, And baffled, get up and begin
again." | |
|
Robert Browning
|
|
| "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for
adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different
amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess,
absurd in the highest degree." | |
|
Charles Robert Darwin
|
|
| "True friendship is seen through the heart not through the
eyes." | |
|
Unknown
|
|
| "Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not
a fly." | |
|
Alexander Pope
|
|
| "Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a
Milstone, but cleane through the minde." | |
|
John Lyly
|
|
| "[upon losing the use of his right eye] Now I will have less
distraction." | |
|
Leonhard Euler
|