Quotes About Perspective

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

I don't know what humor is.

It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

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

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

I teach that all men are mad.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Think sideways!

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

He laughs best who laughs last.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.