Quotes about Perspective
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
— Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
— Euripides
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.
— GK Chesterton
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
— GK Chesterton
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
— GK Chesterton
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
— Mark Twain
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
— Mark Twain
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
— Mark Twain