Quotes About Perspective

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.

The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider

all. First, it concerns rich men. You would not think that it would be necessary to tell rich men to be content, whom God has blessed with great possessions, but, instead, persuade them to be humble and thankful. But

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.

A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested

It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left.

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

But listen, it's not finished: the United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God,—that's what it said on the envelope.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.