Quotes About Perspective

We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt us.

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Ils ont treize noms pour nommer le palmier, et le palmier n'est pas nommé.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

The clay pot wishes to laugh at the iron pot. --Trinidad proverb

JAPAN AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION BY LAFCADIO HEARN

As for the wine in the cups, it looked like water; but, as it tasted all right, what did its looks signify?

Truth is only a question of point of view.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees the fair flowers growing.