Black Eye Stripe

Famous quotes containing the words black, eye and/or stripe:

    “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white; as long at it can catch mice, it’s a good cat.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Whether they knew or not,
    Goldsmith and Burke, Swift and the Bishop of Cloyne
    All hated Whiggery; but what is Whiggery?
    A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
    That never looked out of the eye of a saint
    Or out of drunkard’s eye.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 21:23-25.