“Masterly inactivity may be prudence to one man, desperate rashness to another.”

“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron

“The man irritated her just like a rash.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

“What may be good circumstances in one man, cannot be deemed so in another.”

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

“The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

Farley Mowat (1921–2014) Canadian author and environmentalist

“Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.”

José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist

“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man — a noble man — frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian