quotes about eyes

A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. ~Pat Parelli



A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau



Art is the triumph over chaos. ~John Cheever



Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. ~Benjamin Harrison



Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. ~Astrid Alauda



To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman



A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~William Ralph Inge



A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? ~Charles Ives



Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. ~Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com



Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815



If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ~Voltaire



The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry. ~Terri Guillemets



Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. ~Beverly Nichols



Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970



To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega



What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. ~Stanislaw J. Lec



It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. ~Abraham Lincoln



No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake. ~Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl)



I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. ~Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends



Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler