Famous quotes containing the word blind:
“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 (17281774)
“As if he were
a pot of dates
in a blind mans hand,
Mothers,
they pilfer my husband
and theyre jealous of me!
The cobras hood
has come out of its tail.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rains tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”
—Federico García Lorca (18981936)
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