Quotes About Perspective

One man's bane is another's bliss.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.