Quotes About Perspective

I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.

I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.

I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training.

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

All right, all right, have it your own way! I can't prove I'm right—so I must be wrong. Men!

that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

The fact that Ben retained Cavendish shows how seriously he took the matter; you don't hunt rabbits with an elephant gun.

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.

Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? —Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.

An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language.

But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday—at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself—or perhaps to a man from Mars.

But, to tell the truth, a soldier doesn't notice a war much more than a civilian does, except his own tiny piece of it and that just on the days it is happening.

Science fiction means different things to different people. When I make a word do a lot of work like that, said Humpty Dumpty, I always pay it extra—in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a belief that men should rule the world and women should rule men.

In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never counted his change.

Don't bawl over Ben—not in my presence. The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death . . . and that we are all in for—if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Wealth—great wealth—is a curse . . . unless you are devoted to the money-making game for its own sake. And even then it has serious drawbacks.