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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist." »Arabic Proverb
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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]" »Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
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"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed. (on a state visit to China)" »Prince Phillip
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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on." »William Shakespeare
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"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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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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