Perspective proverbs

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◆ There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ One person's craziness is another person's reality.

- Tim Burton99

◆ We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.

- George Carlin99

◆ We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole99

◆ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett99

◆ If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

- George Carlin99

◆ A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

- Robertson Davies99

◆ Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr99

◆ There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

- Mark Haddon99