Eye Examination Chart

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl. - French Proverb

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. - Jim Carrey

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. - Joseph Joubert

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. - Pablo Picasso

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I've kissed so many women I can do it with my eyes closed. - Henny Youngman

She has the eyes of Caligula, but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe. - Francois Mitterrand

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure it's fun to watch. - MGM Grand Hotel

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun. - Charles Hanson Towne

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Henry Ford

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight. - Robert Frost

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead. - Sarah Rees Brennan

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. - George Eliot

Anyone can make you smile or cry, but it takes someone special to make you smile when you already have tears in your eyes. - Unknown

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump. - Andrew Vachss

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant