Quotes About Perspective

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.