Quotes About Perspective

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!