Quotes About Perspective

At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.