Quotes About Perspective

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. The consequences are ludicrous.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that their behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Why is Monday so far from Friday, and yet Friday is so near to Monday?

Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

WEALTH. Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning — and the younger generation doesn't think so much of it either.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.