Muddy water is a bad looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
A friend's eye is a good looking-glass. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
We must love, as looking one day to hate. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is looking downward that makes one dizzy. [ Robert Browning ]
The fairest looking shoe may pinch the foot. [ Proverb ]
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. [ South ]
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. [ Proverb ]
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven. [ Cudworth ]
Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking. [ Tupper ]
Greatness doth not approach him who is forever looking down. [ Hitopadesa ]
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. [ Goethe ]
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. [ Plato ]
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. [ J. F. Boyes ]
A withered hermit, fivescore winters worn, might shake off fifty, looking in her eye. [ William Shakespeare ]
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. [ Johnson ]
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. [ Frances Anne Kemble ]
Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. [ Steve Jobs ]
My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation. [ Terence ]
To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing thy dwelling. [ Tupper ]
The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]
I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more. As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired. [ Bailey ]
Never give a moment to complaint, but utilize the time that would otherwise be spent in this way, in looking forward and actualizing the conditions you desire. [ Trine ]
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]
When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]
Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of tomorrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. [ Horace ]
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, - words with little meaning, actions with little worth, - one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. [ Carlyle ]
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book, and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other. [ Madame Necker ]
Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]
Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. [ Carlyle ]
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it.
Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name?
The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann.
[ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]