A Quote by Madeleine de Scudery
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.
I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it’s dark and you can’t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
My eyes are wide open... you serve in Iraq, your eyes are wide open.
I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.
So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.
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