Quotes About Perspective

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

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

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.