
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Look And Thou Shalt Find
Grooks
Context: Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”
Five to Twelve (1968)
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Cynthia Zarin, , "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern", Architectural Digest (April 2002), v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152.
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827
“And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.”
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
Variant: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)