Quotes on perspective
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Smith, Logan Pearsall
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Einstein, Albert
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
Baldwin, James
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Cooley, Mason
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Amiel, Henri
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Joubert, Joseph
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Richter, Jean Paul
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
Collins, John Churton
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Saying, Ancient Persian
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.
Heller, Erich
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Amis, Martin
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
Cowman, C.E.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
Wesley, John
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them."
Montague, Charles Edward
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.
Proverb, Mexican
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Presence is more than just being there.
Forbes, Malcolm S.
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Wilder, Billy
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
Spencer, Herbert
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
Bierce, Ambrose
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Gibran, Kahlil
Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.
Howard, Neale E.
What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.
Lownes, Victor
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Butler, Samuel
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.
White, E. B.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
Anderson, Philip W.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
Carradine, David
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
Abrams, Creighton W.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Gide, André
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
Smith, Kevin
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Unknown, Author
Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
Vauvenargues, Marquis de