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Quotes About Perspective

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
~ Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
~ Jim Harrison, Warlock
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
~ James Thurber
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
~ Pat Monahan
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
~ George Carlin
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
~ Marc Maron
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
~ Steven Wright
Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.
~ David Sedaris
I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
~ Ron Howard
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
~ Thomas Ligotti
A hooker once told me she had a headache.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.
~ Michael Shurtleff
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
~ Mitch Hedberg
I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
~ Emo Philips
Housework can kill you if done right.
~ Erma Bombeck
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
~ George Bernard Shaw
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
~ Thornton Wilder
But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
~ Wayne White
Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"
~ Frank Carson
Sometimes I... No, I don't.
~ Steven Wright