Quotes About Perspective

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.