Quotes About Perspective

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

A mad man sees what he sees.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.