Quotes About Perspective

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.