Quotes about Perspective

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.