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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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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus." »Desiderius Erasmus
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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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"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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"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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"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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"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius
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"It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton
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"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous
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"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer
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"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson
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"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman
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"Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen
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"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee." »Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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