Quotes about Perspective

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

We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.