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Eye Quotes by Mark Twain
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of…
- One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and…
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
- ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or…
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick…
- If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then…
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the…
- The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
- Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures,…
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila