Eyes Quotes and Sayings

“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. “
Marcus Tulius Cicero

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. “
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”
Unknown

“My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. “
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Pablo Picasso

“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. “
Paracelsus

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Henri Bergson

“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. “
Sophia Loren

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. “
Victor Hugo

“The eyes those silent tongues of love. “
Miguel de Cervantes

“Among the blind, the squinter rules”
Proverb

“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. “
Stevie Wonder

“The eyes are the amulets of the mind. “
William R. Alger

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Martin Buber

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? “
Bob Marley

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. “
Benjamin Franklin

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes”
Orson Scott Card

“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. “
Benjamin Franklin

“Seeing is not always believing.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. “
Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
Heraclitus

“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! “
Victoria Abril

“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. “
Charles Caleb Colton

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. “
Alan Watts

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. “
Bible

“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. “
Thomas Merton

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine”
Plato

“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 other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that 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. “
Joseph Addison

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. “
Ellen DeGeneres

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. “
Charles Dickens

“Who can blind lover's eyes? “
Virgil

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

“The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. “
William Wordsworth

“TV is chewing gum for the eyes. “
Frank Lloyd Wright

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. “
Richard Bach

“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. “
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. “
Proverb

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”
Jean Toomer

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. “
James Joyce

“Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not”
Plato

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. “
: Proverb

“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
Stanislaw Lec

“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. “
Warren G. Bennis

“I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. “
Laurence Olivier

“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. “
Friedrich Nietzsche

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. “
Virginia Woolf

“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. “
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them”
Owen Meredith

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing. “
Pablo Picasso

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. “
Mark Twain

“I will know him by his eyes. “
Taylor Caldwell

“Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. “
Michel de Montaigne

“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. “
Christian Nestell Bovee

“The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.”
Amos Bronson Alcott

“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. “
Robert Burton

“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
Alfred Adler

“The eye is easily frightened. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. “
George Herbert

“I shut my eyes in order to see. “
Paul Gauguin

“An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. “
H. Powers

“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. “
Euripides

“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. “
Thomas Carlyle

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. “
Gertrude Stein

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. “
Nikos Kazantzakis

“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. “
Napoleon Hill

“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
George MacDonald

“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. “
Paulo Coelho

“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
: William Cullen Bryant

“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. “
William Shakespeare

“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll

“The eyes are the mirror of the soul”
Yiddish Proverb

“She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. “
Aaron Hill

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. “
Benjamin Franklin

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. “
Jim Carrey

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. “
Albert Einstein

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
Groucho Marx

“I prefer to see with closed eyes. “
Josef Albers

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. “
Theodore Roosevelt

“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. “
Horace

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. “
Sylvia Plath

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. “
William Hazlitt

“What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. “
Jewish Proverb

“In her eyes a thought grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning. “
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
Pope John XXIII

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' “
Anton Chekhov

“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. “
Albert Pike

“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. “
Octavio Paz

“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. “
Publilius Syrus

“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. “
Stevie Wonder

“I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.”
Mahalia Jackson

“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss? “
John Hughes

“Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.”
Depeche Mode

“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears. “
Jimi Hendrix

“A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. “
Saint Aurelius Augustine

“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. “
Alexander Pope

“I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time. “
Tyra Banks

“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.”
Unknown

“I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. “
Max Beerbohm

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. “
Albert Einstein

“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The eye is the jewel of the body. “
Henry David Thoreau

“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. “
Audrey Hepburn

Sayings , quotes about Divorce

“There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.”
Norman Mailer

"I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce."
Catherine Deneuve

"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
Lemuel K. Washburn


"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
Denis Diderot

"For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life." Joyce Brothers

"She got the gold mine. I got the shaft."
Author: Anonymous

"There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life."
Michael Douglas

"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
P. J. O'Rourke

“Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand”

"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
Michael Chabon

“The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

"Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually."
Boy George

"That was the best thing I ever did probably, the day I filed for divorce." [From Pamela Anderson]
Kid Rock

"Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."
Helen Rowland

"I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs."
Roger Waters

"Divorce is a game played by lawyers."
Cary Grant

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”
Clare Boothe Luce

"The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life."
Gloria Swanson

"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
Richard Wagner

“A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce”
Don Quinn

"I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place."
Lee Tergesen

"Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner."
Jay Leno

“Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.”
Robin Williams


"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."
Tertullian

"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Mary Wesley

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Carl Sandberg

"My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years."
Lee Trevino

"If marriage means you fell in love, does divorce mean you climbed out?"
Unknown

"What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce."
Claire Trevor

"Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak."
Henry Miller

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."
Jim Morrison

"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
Edith Wharton

"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
G. B. Trudeau

"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
Samuel Butler

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
Voltaire

"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
Kurt Cobain

"An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce."
Ann Landers

“American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced”
Elinor Glyn

"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
Rita Mae Brown

"Just another of our many disagreements. He wants a no-fault divorce, whereas I would prefer to have the bastard crucified." J.B. Handlesman

"I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says."
Eric Braeden

“The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."
Mary Kay Blakely

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead."
Bjork

"Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits."
Pope Leo XIII

“I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries."
Ambrose Bierce

“She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.”
Tommy Manville

"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."
Jack Benny

“I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. “
Elayne Boosler

"When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse."
Monica Bellucci

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."Jean Kerr

"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."
Maria Bartiromo

"Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible."
Diana Ross

“Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.”
Henny Youngman

"Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major."
Oliver Stone

“So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease”
Dorothy Dix

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."
Lauren Bacall

"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
Dinah Sheridan

"I am never going to get divorced, and that's that."
Diana Princess Of Wales

"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
Jean Kerr

"A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short."
Mickey Rooney

"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you."
Margaret Atwood

“You don't know a women till you've met her in court.”
Norman Mailer

"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."
Susan B. Anthony

"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."
Allan Sherman

"I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible."
Priscilla Presley

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
Robert Anderson

“I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.”
Edward Albee

"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."
Christina Aguilera

"You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."
Jimmy Carter

"How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice."
Lee Trevino

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."
Ellen Burstyn

"The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money."
Johnny Carson

"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
James Caan

"Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to."
Brian Adam

"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
Gloria Swanson

Citations , references , mentions about JEALOUSY

“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard”
Washington Irving

"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. "
William Shakespeare

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."

Havelock Ellis

“Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart”.
Unknown

""O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."
William Shakespeare

“Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard”
Ovid


Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her”
Abraham Lincoln

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. "
George Bernard Shaw

"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. "
Paul Eldridge

"The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads."
Dorothy Dix

"Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. "
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men will sometimes jealous be,
Though but little cause they see."
Thomas Campion

“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
Erica Jong

"Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. "
Leslie Grimutter

"Jealousy is a crutch."
C. Astrid Weber

"In jealousy there is more self-love than love. "
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest."
A.R. Orage

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it”
François de la Rochefoucauld

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
George Eliot

"Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. "
Mme. de Puixieux

"Jealousy and love are sisters."
Russian Proverb

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self”
Joan Didion

"Jealousy is the great exaggerator."
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
Aphra Behn

"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
Maya Angelou

“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not”
William Shakespeare

“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.”
Oscar Wilde

“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive”
Alexis Carrel

“Jealousy is the injured lover's hell”
John Milton

"I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart."
Astrid Alauda

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”
Joseph Addison

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry

“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.”
Lope de Vega

“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins”
Iris Murdoch

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
George Eliot

"Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. "
Jennifer James

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Elizabeth Bowen

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
Robert A. Heinlein

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen


"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
William Penn

"He that is not jealous is not in love."
St. Augustine

“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it”
Lord Byron

"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. "
Lawrence Durrell

“Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it”
François de la Rochefoucauld