Quotes About Perspective

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

If you've got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don't.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.