Quotes About Perception

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

You might be a redneck if you think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just misunderstood.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.