Quotes About Perception

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

Woman is the lesser man.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

Women are less aesthetic than men.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion