Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Eyes

• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Faith, Spiritual, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Morning, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.94, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Clothes, People

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Educational, Eye, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.332

• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

• I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, People, Enemy

• When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

• In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Bears, Priests

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.18, Nayika Publishing

• Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Hands, Temptation

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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