Quotes About Perspective

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.