Quotes about Perspective

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.