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Quotes About Observation

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
~ Lily Tomlin
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
~ Will Rogers
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
~ Robert Benchley
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames
~ Harry Hill
The broccoli says 'I look like a small tree', the mushroom says 'I look like an umbrella', the walnut says 'I look like a brain', and the banana says 'Can we please change the subject?'
~ Unknown
If you see a guy opening a car door for a girl, its one of two things, either a new girl, or a new car!
~ Unknown
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
~ Oscar Wilde
Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget.
~ Dorothy Parker
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
~ Aldous Huxley
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
~ James Stephens
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~ Marcel Achard
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
~ Anatole France
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ Unknown
Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).
~ Chanakya
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?
~ Chanakya
Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ WC Fields
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'
~ Emo Philips
Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ WC Fields
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
~ W Somerset Maugham
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.
~ Unknown
I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
~ Mark Wahlberg
Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.
~ Mark Williams