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Quotes About Perspective

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.
~ Unknown
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
~ Arnold Bennett
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
The woman that tries t' keep up with the' procession don't see near as much as her husband who stands on the' curb.
~ Kin Hubbard
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
~ Marcel Proust
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
~ Edward Gorey
A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.
~ Milton Berle
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
~ Betty Grable
I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
~ Drew Barrymore
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.
~ James Matthew Barrie
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
~ Jane Austen
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
~ Karl Kraus
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
~ Emo Philips
Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
~ Kurt Cobain
Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to each other. Perhaps, dare I even say it, in the same zip code.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
~ Unknown
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
~ Coco Chanel
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
~ Germaine Greer
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
~ Alphonse Karr
Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
~ Erica Jong
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
~ Bill Maher