Quotes About Perception

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Vrouwen bewonderen én verdenken iedere vrijgezelf die ouder is dan dertig.

doña Venjamón, dama de puerta mayor, dos asientos en el tranvía, uno para cada nalga, y ocho varas y tercia por vestido.

El trabajo del novelista es hacer visible lo invisible con palabras.

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Soy la vida, la Manzana-Rosa del Ave del Paraíso; soy la mentira de todas las cosas reales, la realidad de todas las ficciones!

Si en el primer instante sintió vaciarse sus pupilas para abarcar la inmensidad, ahora la inmensidad se las llenaba. Era el regreso de la marea hasta sus ojos.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

I begin to smell a rat.

I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.