Quotes About Perspective

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?