Eyes Quotes

  • A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.~Traditional Proverb
  • You can’t look into a bottle with both eyes at the same time.~ Togolese Proverb
  • Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.~ Italian Proverb
  • A clear conscience shines not only in the eyes.~ Lebanese Proverb
  • A man’s eyes are for seeing, a woman’s for being seen.~ Luxembourg Proverb
  • An animal will always look for a person’s intentions by looking them right in the eyes.~ H.Powers
  • An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • Anger has no eyes.~ Hindi Proverb
  • Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.~ Malagasy Proverb
  • Blind eyes see better than blind hearts.~ Arabian Proverb
  • Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.~ Spanish Proverb
  • Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man, and a horse with the eyes of a young one.~ Armenian Proverb
  • Day has its eyes, night has its ears.~ Japanese Proverb
  • Do everything as in the eye of another.~ Seneca
  • Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.~ Stevie Wonder
  • Faith has no eyes; he who asks to see has no faith.~ Portuguese Proverb
  • Fear has big eyes.~ Russian Proverb
  • Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows.~ Georgian Proverb
  • God grant us no neighbor with two eyes.~ Arabian Proverb
  • Good eyes don’t fear smoke.~ Lithuanian Proverb
  • Happiness opens the arms and closes the eyes.~ German Proverb
  • Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • He who blows into the wind gets smoke in his eyes.~ Slovak Proverb
  • He who can read and write has four eyes.~ Albanian Proverb
  • He who does not open his eyes must open his purse.~ German Proverb
  • He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.~ Tibetan Proverb
  • He who knows his heart mistrusts his eyes.~ Chinese Proverb
  • If the eyes didn’t see, the hands wouldn’t take.~ Yiddish Proverb
  • If you are dancing with your rivals, don’t close your eyes.~ Burundi Proverb
  • If you can’t use your eyes, follow your nose.~ Latvian Proverb
  • If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.~ Berber Proverb
  • If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.~ Turkish Proverb
  • In our eyes the neighbor’s chicken is a goose.~ Turkish Proverb
  • In the company of the blind, close your eyes.~ Turkish Proverb
  • In the eyes of its mother every turkey is a swan.~ Luxembourg Proverb
  • It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.~ German Proverb
  • It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes.~ Russian Proverb
  • It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.~ John Milton
  • Jealousy and fear have big eyes.~ Serbian Proverb
  • Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.~ Jamaican Proverb
  • Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Kings have many ears and eyes.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Let him speak who has seen with his eyes.~ Congolese Proverb
  • Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out.~ Spanish Proverb
  • Loving with the eyes only, has blinded a lot of fools.~ French Proverb
  • Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.~ Greek Proverb
  • No better witnesses than your own eyes.~ Ethiopian Proverb
  • Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eyes of man.~ Arabian Proverb
  • Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.~ Helen Keller
  • One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.~ John Galsworthy
  • One devil does not scratch out another devil’s eyes.~ Serbian Proverb
  • One may have good eyes and see nothing.~ Italian Proverb
  • Onions, smoke and women bring tears to your eyes.~ Danish Proverb
  • Only through the eyes of others can we really see our own faults.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Our eyes are our enemies.~ Russian Proverb
  • Seeing is poison for the eyes.~ Japanese Proverb
  • Taking aim for too long can ruin your eyes.~ Ivorian Proverb
  • Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.~ Christian Nevell Bovee
  • Tears come more often from the eyes than from the heart.~ Russian Proverb
  • Ten tongues that spread the word are worth less than two eyes that have seen, and two eyes that have seen are worth less than one hand that feels.~ Thai Proverb
  • The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell.~ Nigerian Proverb
  • The blow is taken on the nose but it’s the eyes that cry.~ Martiniquais Proverb
  • The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.~ Italian Proverb
  • The dead open the eyes of the living.~ Spanish Proverb
  • The eye is the jewel of the body.~ Henry David Thoreau
  • The eyes are bigger than the belly.~ Dutch Proverb
  • The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.~ Publilius Syrus
  • The eyes are of little use if the mind be blind.~ Arabian Proverb
  • The eyes are the window of the soul.~ Traditional Proverb
  • The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.~ German Proverb
  • The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t.~ Iranian Proverb
  • The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.~ Indian Proverb
  • The eyes have one language everywhere.~ Romanian Proverb
  • The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The eyes of all cheats are full of tears.~ Bosnian Proverb
  • The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good.~ Bible
  • The eyes see everything but themselves.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
  • The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.~ Robertson Davies
  • The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.~ Latin Proverb
  • The first love letters are written with the eyes.~ French Proverb
  • The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.~ Nigerian Proverb
  • To deny God’s existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.~ Malagasy Proverb
  • What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.~ Horace
  • What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.~ Yiddish Proverb
  • What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.~ Jewish Proverb
  • Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.~ Iranian Proverb
  • Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Woods have ears and fields have eyes.~ Dutch Proverb
  • Your wife’s eyes are in your purse.~ Romanian Proverb
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