Quotes About Contrast

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

What destroys one man preserves another.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.