Sayings about Eyes
The eyes are the window of the soul. ~ Traditional Proverb
The eye is blind if the mind is absent. ~ Italian Proverb
Away from the eye, away from the mind. ~ Palestinian Proverb
The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes. ~ Nigerian Proverb
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. ~ Dutch Proverb
Present to the eye, present to the mind. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who doesn’t open his eyes when he buys must still open his purse to pay. ~ Danish Proverb
Beauty is the eye’s food but the soul’s sorrow. ~ German Proverb
Onions, smoke and women bring tears to your eyes. ~ Danish Proverb
If you close one eye, you will not hear everything. ~ Swiss Proverb
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. ~ Spanish Proverb
Among the blind the one eyed is king. ~ Traditional Proverb
Only through the eyes of others can we really see our own faults. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every eye has its look. ~ Palestinian Proverb
Let him speak who has seen with his eyes. ~ Congolese Proverb
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth. ~ Yiddish Proverb
A man’s eyes are for seeing, a woman’s for being seen. ~ Luxembourg Proverb
The tongue can paint what the eye can’t see. ~ Chinese Proverb
Happiness opens the arms and closes the eyes. ~ German Proverb
Even the one-eyed man winks to women. ~ Arabian Proverb
The eyes have one language everywhere. ~ Romanian Proverb
He who can read and write has four eyes. ~ Albanian Proverb
It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~ German Proverb
When the ear does not hear the eye will see better. ~ Guyanese Proverb
Who has only one eye must take good care of it. ~ Dutch Proverb
Tears come more often from the eyes than from the heart. ~ Russian Proverb
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. ~ German Proverb
Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows. ~ Georgian Proverb
One eye is a better witness than two ears. ~ Danish Proverb
A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other. ~ Portuguese Proverb
Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eyes of man. ~ Arabian Proverb
The eye is the one that eats. ~ Palestinian Proverb
The eyes see everything but themselves. ~ Yugoslavian 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 eye of the master does more than his two hands. ~ Danish Proverbs
The eyes are of little use if the mind be blind. ~ Arabian Proverb
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The first love letters are written with the eyes. ~ French Proverb
One may have good eyes and see nothing. ~ Italian Proverb
A tear in the eye is the wound of the heart. ~ Gypsy Proverb
The eyes are bigger than the belly. ~ Dutch Proverb
A friend’s eye is a good mirror. ~ Irish Proverb
Loving with the eyes only, has blinded a lot of fools. ~ French Proverb
What fills the eye fills the heart. ~ Irish Proverb
The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one. ~ Italian Proverbs
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
The eye sees, but the hand can’t reach. ~ Palestinian Proverb
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell. ~ Nigerian Proverb
To have two eyes can be cause for pride; but to have one eye is better than to have none. ~ Guinean Proverb
Blind eyes see better than blind hearts. ~ Arabian Proverb
Do not buy with your ears but with your eyes. ~ Czech Proverb
The best mirror is a friend’s eye. ~ Scottish Proverbs
No better witnesses than your own eyes. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
He who knows his heart mistrusts his eyes. ~ Chinese Proverb
The stranger has big eyes but he doesn’t see anything. ~ Ivorian Proverb
The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~ Bantu Proverb
Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye. ~ English Proverb
It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes. ~ Russian Proverb
The eyes do not see what the mind does not want. ~ Indian Proverbs
Good eyes don’t fear smoke. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Fields have eyes and woods have ears. ~ French Proverb
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. ~ Traditional Proverb
Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others. ~ German Proverb
If you feed the mouth, the eye becomes shy. ~ Palestinian Proverb
Choose a friend with the eyes of an old man, and a horse with the eyes of a young one. ~ Armenian Proverb
The eye cannot rise above the eyebrow. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness. ~ Berber Proverb
The eyes of all cheats are full of tears. ~ Bosnian Proverb
If you don’t want to be deceived, you must have as many eyes as hairs on the head. ~ German Proverbs
An eye and a friend are quickly hurt. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
What the heart doesn’t see, the eye will not see either. ~ Russian Proverbs
God grant us no neighbor with two eyes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Love is an eye that doesn’t see anything. ~ Chinese Proverb
If the eyes didn’t see, the hands wouldn’t take. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Quotations about Eyes
Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When there is love in the heart there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. ~ Horace
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The eyes have one language everywhere. ~ George Herbert
The eyes are the windows of a woman’s heart; you may enter that a way! ~ Eugene Sue
He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Men trust their ears less than their eyes. ~ Herodotus
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~ Robertson Davies
The eye is the mirror of the soul. ~ Author Unknown
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ~ Max Beerbohm
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Do everything as in the eye of another. ~ Senecaw
Close both eyes, to see with the other eye. ~ Rumi
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~ Robertson Davies
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. ~ Joseph Addison
An animal will always look for a person’s intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ~ H.Powers
The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good. ~ Bible
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ~ Publilius Syrus
One’s eyes are what one is; one’s mouth is what one becomes. ~ John Galsworthy
The eye is the jewel of the body. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
