Quotes on perspective
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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John Lubbock Quotes
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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James Baldwin Quotes
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.
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Anton Chekov Quotes
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Mason Cooley Quotes
A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
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Wendy Kaminer Quotes
Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
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Sid Caesar Quotes
Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
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Oliver Prince Smith Quotes
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
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Judith Martin Quotes
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Joseph Joubert Quotes
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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Jean Paul Richter Quotes
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
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Robert Benchley Quotes
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
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Samuel Grafton Quotes
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
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Russian Proverb Quotes
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
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John Churton Collins Quotes
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
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Japanese Proverb Quotes
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
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Tom Stoppard Quotes
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.
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Erich Heller Quotes
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
If anyone were to be willing to trace his descent through an ape as his grandfather, would he be willing to trace his descent similarly on the side of his grandmother?
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Samuel Wilberforce Quotes
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
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Martin Amis Quotes
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.
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S.A. Sachs Quotes
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
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C.E. Cowman Quotes
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
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John Wesley Quotes
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them."
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Charles Edward Montague Quotes
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
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Socrates Quotes
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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Stevie Wonder Quotes
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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George Santayana Quotes
In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
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Brooks Atkinson Quotes
There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.
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Philippine Proverb Quotes
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.
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Mexican Proverb Quotes
Each moment is a place you've never been.
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Mark Strand Quotes
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Presence is more than just being there.
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Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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David Dunham Quotes
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Billy Wilder Quotes
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
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Oscar Holmolka Quotes
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
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Curtis Billings Quotes
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
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Herbert Spencer Quotes
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
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.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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.
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Neale E. Howard Quotes
What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.
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Victor Lownes Quotes
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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Rachel Carson Quotes
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
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Andrew Carnegie Quotes
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.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
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.
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E. B. White Quotes
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
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Philip W. Anderson Quotes
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.
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David Carradine Quotes
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
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Howard Nemerov Quotes
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
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Creighton W. Abrams Quotes
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.
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Lewis Carroll Quotes
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
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Bill Copeland Quotes
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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André Gide Quotes
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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Joseph Heller Quotes
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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Charles Lamb Quotes
The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.
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Nathaniel LeTonnerre Quotes
An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Anaïs Nin Quotes
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
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Ivy Baker Priest Quotes
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
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Latin Proverb Quotes
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
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Kevin Smith Quotes
All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.
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Mark Twain Quotes
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
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Bern Williams Quotes