Quotes About Perspective

Put cream and sugar on a fly, and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.

Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.)

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here."

There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.

Philosophy is a first rate thing to have, but you can't alleviate the gout with it, unless the gout happens to be on some other fellow.

laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to move a step beyond that.

I like people who don't take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

They're not gray hairs — they're wisdom highlights.

Gray hair is a blessing — ask any bald man.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some; and it is the truth that most people possess more than they realize, for we know how pathetically often loss reveals what a great quantity has been possessed but not realized.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours.

If yu ever find happiness bi hunting for it, yu will find it, az the old woman did the spektakles she had lost, safe on her own noze all the time.

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.