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Quotes About Perspective

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
~ Dan Savage
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.
~ Dana Gould
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
~ David Antin
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
~ David Baldacci
Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
~ Diogenes Laertius
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
~ E. W. Howe
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
~ Edward Gibbon
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
~ Elmer Davis
No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
~ Epictetus
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~ Ernestine Rose
Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?
~ Euripides
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
~ Gautama Buddha
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
~ Gelett Burgess
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.
~ George Jean Nathan
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
~ George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
~ George Santayana
A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
~ Groucho Marx
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
~ George Eliot
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.
~ Aesop
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
~ Ai Weiwei