Quotes about Perspective
I don't know what humor is.
— Will Rogers
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
— Dale Carnegie
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
— GK Chesterton
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
— Will Rogers