Quotes About Perspective

Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]

Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.

Jangan gembira kalau seseorang ditindas, Jangan kesal kalau seseorang mendapat berkah.

Authors are partial to their wit

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.

But always think the last opinion right.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.