Perspective: 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight. ~John Suckling Perspective: [N]o man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~Charles Dudley Warner Perspective: A "fraternity" is the antithesis of . The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ~E.B. White Perspective: A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. ~Thomas Fuller Perspective: A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck. ~Jewish saying Perspective: A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. ~Robert Brault Perspective: A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." ~Charles Edward Montague Perspective: A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ~Samuel Butler Perspective: A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. ~Author Unknown Perspective: A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. ~Mike Dolan Perspective: A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ~Wendy Kaminer Perspective: A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. ~Earl of Chesterfield Perspective: A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift Perspective: A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. ~Samuel Grafton Perspective: A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~Bill Vaughan Perspective: A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless. ~Robert Brault Perspective: A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy. ~Spanish proverb Perspective: A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec Perspective: A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings Perspective: A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. ~Max Nordau Perspective: Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. ~Martin Amis Perspective: Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody. ~Moms Mabley Perspective: After the striving, the fine talk, and the grandeur of dreams - all that remains is an elegance of bones. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Perspective: All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Andrew Carnegie Perspective: All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman Perspective: All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear side. ~Mark Twain, about the Devil Perspective: All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Perspective: An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ~Samuel Butler Perspective: An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. ~S.A. Sachs Perspective: An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. ~Albert Einstein Perspective: An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ~William Bernbach Perspective: An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ~Michel de Montaigne Perspective: And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. ~Rupert Brooke Perspective: As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full. ~Terri Guillemets Perspective: Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. ~Neale E. Howard Perspective: At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish. ~Thai Proverb Perspective: Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. ~Erich Heller Perspective: But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun. ~Meher Baba Perspective: Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ~George Santayana Perspective: Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~Judith Martin Perspective: Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ~Andre Gide Perspective: Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. ~Author Unknown Perspective: Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ~Charles Lamb Perspective: Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. ~Robert Brault Perspective: Darkness is the thief's best accomplice. ~James Lendall Basford Perspective: Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~Henri Frederic Amiel Perspective: Disappointment is as inevitable as hope is necessary. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Perspective: Distance is inspiration's best hearting. ~E. Marshall Perspective: Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. ~Robert Brault Perspective: Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness. ~Michael Josephson Perspective: Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown Perspective: Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full. ~ (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata Perspective: Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones. ~Rene Char Perspective: Each moment is a place you've never been. ~Mark Strand Perspective: Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce Perspective: Education is indoctrination if you're white — subjugation if you're black. ~James Baldwin Perspective: Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham Perspective: Emotion has taught mankind to reason. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues Perspective: Equality looks like a peach, tastes like a lemon. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Perspective: Events and external objects are, so to speak, but a neutral substance, which receives its colour and its significance from our soul. ~Alexandre Vinet Perspective: Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. ~Robert Brault Perspective: Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. ~Tom Stoppard Perspective: Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter Perspective: Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~Arthur Schopenhauer Perspective: Every once in a while, turn life over to see what it looks like from the other side. ~Terri Guillemets Perspective: Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Perspective: Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein Perspective: Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. ~Thornton Wilder Perspective: Everything is best until we know better. ~James Lendall Basford Perspective: Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell Perspective: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ~Lewis Carroll Perspective: Exceptions do not always prove the rule; they may be even the first germs of a new rule. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Perspective: Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. ~Ambrose Bierce Perspective: Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. ~Abe Lemons Perspective: Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. ~Saint Francis de Sales Perspective: For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ~Robert Benchley Perspective: For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~Seneca Perspective: Gayety always keeps company with servitude. This blessing God has given the poor to console them for their miseries, just as he has made certain grasses to grow between the pavements that we tread under our feet, certain birds to sing on the old towers, and the beautiful verdure of the ivy to smile upon grimacing ruins. ~Claude Tillier Perspective: Given a little time, regulation regulates nothing. ~Martin H. Fischer Perspective: God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. ~Mignon McLaughlin Perspective: Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. ~Latin Proverb Perspective: He is the most popular plagiarist who improves most upon what he steals. ~James Lendall Basford Perspective: Helping others out of trouble generally helps the helper into trouble. ~James Lendall Basford Perspective: Hints to the thoughtful are often more convincing than elaborate arguments. ~James Lendall Basford Perspective: How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? ~Terri Guillemets Perspective: How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Perspective: How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! ~Logan Pearsall Smith Perspective: How, child, do I know where you're headed? Because I'm there, and I can see you coming. ~Robert Brault Perspective: I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~C.E. Cowman Perspective: I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates Perspective: I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. ~Daniel Boone Perspective: I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ~Robert A. Heinlein Perspective: I have found that the conclusion, "Nobody cares" is always based on an insufficient sampling. ~Robert Brault Perspective: I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb Perspective: I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ~Matthew Henry Perspective: I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. ~Henry Moore Perspective: I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ~Steven Wright Perspective: I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ~Andy Warhol Perspective: I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such. ~Robert Brault Perspective: If a dream is realistic, it's not really a dream. It's a to-do. ~Kim & Jason Kotecki Perspective: If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well. ~David Gerrold Perspective: If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin Perspective: If anyone were to be willing to trace his descent through an ape as his ? ~Samuel Wilberforce Perspective: If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ~Dawn French Perspective: If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ~John Enoch Powell Perspective: If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? ~Bertrand Russell Perspective: If the complexity of the universe demands, as explanation, an intelligent creator - then, by the same reasoning - so does the intelligent creator. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Perspective: If the day ever comes when everything worth doing has been done, there will be plenty worth undoing. ~Robert Brault Perspective: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow Perspective: If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins Perspective: If we were unable to tell the sexes by their dress, nay, if in general we had to guess at them, a new world of love would arise. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Perspective: If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. ~Robert Brault Perspective: If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go. ~Anton Chekhov Perspective: If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula K. Le Guin Perspective: If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter. ~Jack Fyock Perspective: If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Perspective: If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan Perspective: If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Author Unknown Perspective: Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. ~H.L. Mencken Perspective: In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. ~James Russell Lowell Perspective: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ~Imbesi's Conservation of Filth Law Perspective: In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. ~Brooks Atkinson Perspective: In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. ~Robert Brault Perspective: In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~Robert Green Ingersoll Perspective: In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. ~Spock Perspective: Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~Anatole France Perspective: Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic Perspective: Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. ~Anaïs Nin Perspective: Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Author Unknown Perspective: It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ~Carl Jung Perspective: It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Perspective: It is a positive fact that some thoughts please us when we are lying down which fail to please us any more when we are on our feet. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Perspective: It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. ~Antonio Porchia Perspective: It is easier to be the hero of the moment than the hero of every drudging hour and every grinding day. ~Robert Brault Perspective: It is not easy, the choice between God and the devil, for it is presented to us as a choice between forgiveness and understanding. ~Robert Brault Perspective: It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb Perspective: It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~Seneca