Quotes About Perspective

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.

It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.