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| A chaste eye exiles licentious looks. | 1 |
| A man who has but one eye must take good care of it. French. | 2 |
| All that you get you can put in your eye and see none the worse. | 3 |
| An evil eye can see no good. Danish. | 4 |
| An eye finds more truth than two ears. German. | 5 |
| Better eye out than always watching. | 6 |
| Better one-eyed than stone blind. German, Spanish. | 7 |
| Cure your sore eyes only with your elbow. | 8 |
| Four eyes see more than two. | 9 |
| He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand. Portuguese. | 10 |
| Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson. | 11 |
| I went to cross myself and put out one of my eyes. Spanish, Portuguese. | 12 |
| If the eye do not admire the heart will not desire. Italian. | 13 |
| If the eye don’t see the heart won’t break. Spanish. | 14 |
| If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow. French. | 15 |
| In every battle the eye is first conquered. Tacitus. | 16 |
| In the forehead and the eye the lecture of the mind doth lie. | 17 |
| It is all in my eye. (An expression sometimes used to express disbelief in an improbable statement.) | 18 |
| It is better to trust the eye than the ear. German. | 19 |
| It is the open eye that weeps. Dr. South. | 20 |
| Many see more with one eye than others with two. German. | 21 |
| One bad eye spoils the other. German. | 22 |
| One may have good eyes and see nothing. Italian. | 23 |
| Out with the eye that profits me not. Turkish. | 24 |
| The eye believes itself, the ear other people. German. | 25 |
| The eye is a shrew. | 26 |
| The eye is bigger than your belly. German. | 27 |
| The eye is blind if the mind is absent. Italian. | 28 |
| The eye is never satisfied with seeing. German. | 29 |
| The eye is the pearl of the face. | 30 |
| The eye of the housewife makes the cow fat. German. | 31 |
| The eye of the master does more than both his hands. | 32 |
| The eye of the master fattens the steed. French, Italian, Spanish, Danish. | 33 |
| The eye of the master is the horse’s grooming. Turkish. | 34 |
| The eye of the master makes the horse fat and that of the mistress the chambers neat. Dutch. | 35 |
| The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason. Publius Syrus. | 36 |
| The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. | 37 |
| The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people. German. | 38 |
| The eyes of the great are dim. Turkish. | 39 |
| The eyes of the hare are one thing and the eyes of the owl another. Modern Greek. | 40 |
| The eyes serve for ears to the deaf. Italian. | 41 |
| The eyes, the ears, the tongue, all fast in their way. | 42 |
| The one-eyed is king in the land of the blind. French, German, Spanish, Portuguese. | 43 |
| There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones. Spanish. | 44 |
| Two eyes see more than one. Portuguese. | 45 |
| Wanting to make right the eyebrows he pulled out his eyes. Turkish. | 46 |
| What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers. Spanish. | 47 |
| What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. Dutch. | 48 |
| What the eye sees not, the heart rues not. French, Italian, German. | 49 |
| What the eye sees not breaks not the heart. Don Quixote. | 50 |
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| What the eyes see the heart believes. German. | 51 |
| Woe be to an evil eye. Danish. | 52 |
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