Quotes About Perspective

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

Mind is never a problem. Mindset is

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.