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If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus. – Desiderius Erasmus
One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle. – Mehmet Murat ildan
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. – Helen Keller
Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist. – Arabic Proverb
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you? – Mehmet Murat ildan
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! – Mehmet Murat ildan
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. – Victor Hugo
Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village. – Morrow Mayo
Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong
I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order. – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed. (on a state visit to China) – Prince Phillip
If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. – George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] – Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home. – Dave Barry
In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle! – Mehmet Murat ildan
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. – Gene Fowler
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. – Harry S Truman
No need to teach an eagle to fly. – Greek Proverb
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. – William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. – William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

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