Bifocals Quotes

• Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

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  Ann Landers

  Success   Dream   Glasses  

  4158

• I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

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  Paul Newman

  Dream   Vision   World  

  4493

• ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

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  John Steinbeck

  Fighting   Men   Bulls  

  "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck".

  1677

• I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.

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  Rita Rudner

  Husband   Together   Sandwiches  

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.2, Crown Archetype

  3209

• I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

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  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Falling In Love   School   Cutting  

  675

• To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

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  Alec Douglas-Home

  Missing   Mind   Age  

  1913