Quotes About Perspective

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

An inch in a man's nose is much.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Call no man happy before he dies.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?