Quotes About Perspective

Speak after the manner of men.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A stranger's eyes see clearest.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

All our geese are swans.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

A tale never loses in the telling.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.

If Noah found himself back on Earth, you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."