Quotes About Perspective

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

Account no man happy till he dies.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.