Quotes About Perspective

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

No one is content with his own lot.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

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

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

When I was fourteen, I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.