Quotes About Perspective

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.