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Quotes About Short-sighted

It might have been supposed that, like a princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie was rich enough and beautiful enough to choose from among all the princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous than the last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another was short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost all were too fat.
~ Honore de Balzac
Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.
~ Horace Walpole
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
~ Frances O'Grady
Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.
~ Anonymous
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley