Quotes About Perspective

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

The difference between two men is usually a woman.

A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.