Quotes About Perspective

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! exclaimed Lord Henry. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

So many things are unexplainable, and how is it that we know a life, except that we know our own, and it is brought into focus by the death of those around us. (less)

Het was krankzinnig hoe klein de wereld in wezen was.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

As I have always said, it's a disaster to discover the humanity of your enemy, his nobility, because then he is not your enemy anymore, he just can't be.

There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

To the seeing eye decay is as fair as growth, and death as life.

Si hanno due vite. La seconda comincia il giorno in cui ci si rende conto che non se ne ha che una.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une.

You are what you think.

Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

They make you settle for second best. That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself. You never get what you want.