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Quotes About Perspective

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
~ Amos Oz
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
~ Andre Gide
A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.
~ Arch Ward
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!
~ Betty White
Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.
~ Bill Maher
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
~ Blaise Pascal
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
~ C. S. Lewis
In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
~ Carla Bruni
One man's creativity is another's brain damage.
~ Roland L. Fischer
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
~ Sallust
No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.
~ Sally Stanford
Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.
~ Sergio Garcia
I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
~ Sonia Johnson
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
~ Sophocles
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
~ Sophocles
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
~ Susan B. Anthony
I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates
~ Tamim Iqbal
No man is happy but by comparison.
~ Thomas Shadwell
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
~ Victor Hugo
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
~ Viktor E. Frankl