Quotes about Perspective
Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Will Rogers
It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.
— Will Rogers
Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.
— Will Rogers
The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
— Will Rogers
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around
— Will Rogers
You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.
— Will Rogers
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.
— Will Rogers
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
— William Faulkner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
— William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt