Quotes About Perspective

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them — when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

In these statements the interpretation of the speaker is given the same validity as the Bible, making the interpreter's words inerrant. I believe in the Bible, but not necessarily in how the Bible is interpreted by humans.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I can see with half an eye.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

The devil is an angel too.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.