Quotes about wearing glasses

About glasses ....?

Nothing makes an object, person, place or event more successful than being talked about by the rich, the famous and the powerful. Very often, these people might talk about something with kindness, and many a times with disdain or even mockery. But at the end of the day, whatever maybe said, the fact that it is being talked about is important.
Glasses have been one object that has evolved with time. Ever since their invention, glasses have been part of high society fashions. They then trickled down to the common man and today are an accepted part of life.
Quotes about wearing glasses range from analogies to humour to philosophy, to even using them to describe people and even to be part of suggestions of an action.

An old German proverb says "If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help"

On a more humorous note, Jayson Feinburg has said "I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way."

Jim Gaffigan has said, "The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do the dramatic removal."

Michael Caine makes a go at actors when he says, "Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses"

Charles W Eliot, President of Harvard from 1834-1926 says about perception, "Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."

Joseph Joubert draws an interesting analogy between glasses and words when he says "Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make clear."

A 19th century playwright Elizabeth Cady Stanton's quote is proof of glasses being part of the everyday apparel of those days too, "Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving"

How glasses are used today as part of everyday clothing is clear from Fred Allen, an American comedian's quote, "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."

An old Arab proverb uses glasses in a concise analogy, "Experience is the glasses of the mind."

Dorothy Parker talks about glasses in an extremely forthright way, from the female perspective when she says, "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
Popular actress Julliane Moore seconds Dorothy Parker's views on women and glasses when she said, "I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!"

So one can see that quotes about glasses can be gotten from personalities right from the 19th century, and across professions including actors, writers, comedians, etc. Like it or not, glasses are here to stay.

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