Quotes about Perspective

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's Notebook, 1885

We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was a manifestly absurd proposition, because Christ, as the Son of God, already owned the world; and besides, what Satan showed him was only a few rocky acres of Palestine. It is just as if some one should try to buy Rockefeller, the owner of all the Standard Oil Company, with a gallon of kerosene.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain