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Quotes About Perspective

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
~ Brian Andreas
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
~ Henry Fielding
When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
~ Terry Pratchett, Making Money
I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."
~ Steven Wright
I don't pull out because... it's not my problem.
~ Jim Norton
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
~ Taki Theodoracopulos
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
~ George Carlin
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
~ Bill W.
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
~ Peter De Vries
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
~ Hermann Hesse
Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.
~ Jimmy Carr
I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.
~ Jimmy Carr
I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
~ Steven Wright
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
~ A. Whitney Brown
You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.
~ Robert Quillen
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
~ Robert Orben
I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.
~ Chris Rock
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
~ Michael Frayn
The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!
~ Robin Williams
The other day I ... no wait, that wasn't me.
~ Steven Wright