Quotes About Perspective

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

Man is the measure of all things.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."