Quotes About Perspective

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.

A great deal has been written and said and sung in praise of green trees. And yet there are comparatively few green trees that are good to eat. Asparagus is probably the best of them, though celery is by no means to be despised.

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

February thought on the human condition: Now is when we complain if the house isn't as warm as it was in the summer, when we complained about the heat.

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

Worry shortens life. Nervous diseases are a scourge to the country and they are the affliction of the human family only. No bird ever tries to build more nests than its neighbor. The fox does not fret because he has only one hole in which to hide. The squirrel does not sicken and die of anxiety lest he should not accumulate enough nuts for two winters instead of one. The dog loses no sleep over the fact that he does not have enough bones laid aside for his declining years.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!

Aquarians are normal. The rest of the world is weird.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

We should emphasize not Negro History but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Gratitude is the best attitude.

Cancer changes your life. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, you learn not to waste your time. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, "If it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it."

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself!...

...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer.

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life — so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this seven-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."