Quotes About Perspective

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.

A couple weeks ago I was on the street and I saw an ugly pregnant lady, and I just thought, 'Good for you.'

I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.