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English Proverb:In a cat's eye, all things


In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
by English Proverb


Thomas Fuller:Choose a wife rather by your ear


Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
by Thomas Fuller


Joseph Addison:A beautiful eye makes silence


A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated, were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.
by Joseph Addison


Homer:There is nothing nobler or more admirable


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
by Homer


Lord Byron:'Tis sweet to know there is an eye


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
by Lord Byron


Anon.:So live that you can look any man in the


So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
by Anon.


Horace:Let your literary compositions be kept


Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
by Horace


Laurence J. Peter:Competence, like truth, beauty


Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
by Laurence J. Peter


Antoine Saint-Exupéry:It is only with the heart


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
by Antoine Saint-Exupéry


Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton:Truth makes on the


Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton


Edmund Burke:The nerve that never relaxes, the


The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
by Edmund Burke


Bhagavad Gita:He who experiences the unity of


He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
by Bhagavad Gita


Aldous Huxley:The traveller's-eye view of men


The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
by Aldous Huxley


H.L. Mencken:If, after I depart this vale, you


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely gi
by H.L. Mencken


William Cowper:Acquaint thyself with God, if


Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
by William Cowper


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