Quotes About Perspective

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

Don't have a cow, man.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.