Eyes - Quotes and Proverbs

Proverbs and quotes about eyes.

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A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

An incapable person can be appreciated if all others are even less capable.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes within your locks: your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

Bible
Source: Song of Solomon

But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big."

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo seeing eyes in the forest

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
About Gollum.

Even if you close your eyes while looking in the mirror the image remains yours.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

Eyes that see do not grow old.

He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Description of Tom Bombadil

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.

I have the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gimli

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Frans de Waal

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

Federico Fellini

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Minna Thomas Antrim
Source: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

It is in the eyes of a lazy man that maize will ripen.

January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
A frost-mailed warrior
striding a shadowy steed of snow.

Edgar Fawcett

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.

Bible
Source: Isaiah 51:6

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

Richard Dawkins

Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut.

One ear was split, the legs were wabbly, the coat was patchy and colorless, but the eyes! ah, they were wonderful.

W. Dayton Wegefarth

Onions, smoke, and women bring tears to your eyes.

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.

Sorin Cerin

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn

The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.

The day has eyes, the night has ears.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.

The lord of the eagles of the Misty Mountains had eyes that could look at the sun unblinking, and could see a rabbit moving on the ground a mile below even in the moonlight.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
About the eagles.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

Bible
Source: Genesis 3:7

There were insects, too, hideous crawling things, with eyes that stared upon him, and filled the very air around, glistening horribly amidst the thick darkness of the place.

Charles Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharial Nehru