Quotes About Perception

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.