(366 quotes found)
“And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.”
George Canning
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
Karl Marx
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love”
Proverb
“Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man”
Yoko Ono
“It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.”
Rachel Carson
“A defensive war I think a righteousness war and justifiable in the sight of God.”
Daniel Morgan
“No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.”
Sophocles
“Pick up a sesame seed but lose sight of a watermelon.”
Chinese Proverbs
“The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
