Quotes About Perspective

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.