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Quotes About Perspective

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
~ Judd Apatow
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.
~ Katherine Dunn
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.
~ Kedar Joshi
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
~ Lauren Bacall
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
~ Laurence J. Peter
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
~ Laurence Overmire
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
~ Laurence Sterne
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
~ Lenore Coffee
A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.
~ Leo Szilard
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
~ Livy
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.
~ Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
~ Lord Chesterfield
For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
~ Louis Aragon
A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
~ Louise Brown
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
One man's fish is another man's poisson.
~ Mark Gatiss
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
~ Mark Twain
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
~ Marquis de Sade
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft