Perspective Quotes

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

In the end, everything is a gag.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.