Blind

Famous quotes containing the word blind:

    For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    I would that I were an old beggar
    Rolling a blind pearl eye,
    For he cannot see my lady
    Go gallivanting by.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)