Quotes About Perception

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.