Quotes About Perspective

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

I don't see the point of watching men exercise.

Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.