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Quotes About Perception

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
~ Garry Shandling
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~ Helen Rowland
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
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
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
~ Marcel Proust
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
~ Unknown
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
~ Unknown
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
~ Elayne Boosler
People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too.
~ Maurice Gibb
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
~ Lord Byron
Nothing is sooner dry than a woman's tears.
~ Unknown
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
~ Richard Burton
There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
~ Lord Byron
Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.
~ Elizabeth Arden
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~ Kate Chopin
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
~ Betty Grable
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
~ William Butler Yeats
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
~ Jane Austen
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
~ Karl Kraus
You know what a woman's curiosity is.
~ Oscar Wilde
Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.
~ Robin Williams