Quotes About Perspective

Call no man happy till he is dead.

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

A camel never sees its own hump.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

As a matter of fact it wouldn't be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I'd trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?