Quotes About Perspective

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.