If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.

-Anonymous
Paperweight on the desk of Richard Scott, chief executive officer, Hospital Corp of  America. Quoted in Forbes,10 Oct1994.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.7^8.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

All great poetry gives the illusion of a view of life.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca'.

A Room with aView.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
   Title of novel.

I have covered boxing, promoted boxing, watched it, thought about it, and after long reflection I cannot find a single thing that isgood about it either from the point of view of participant or spectator.

-Gallagher, Noel
Quoted in Edith Summerskill The Ignoble Art (1956).

Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.

-Levin, (Henry) Bernard
  Hannibal's Footsteps.

   'The Art of Being Ruled'might be described from some points of view as an infernal Utopia. Rather than custom, it feels more like an invocation to an unknown deity when Cubans get together†they hold a suspenseful silence until any voice is heard saying or singing something that has nothing to do with the purpose of the meeting.

-Lezama Lima,Jose¤
  Rude Assignment, ch.31. 1966  Paradiso, ch.3.

My point of view has sadly changed. For now, should all the books in the world be laid before me, my problem would be how many of them I could avoid. Most books are like that.

-Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose
  A Casual Commentary,'Problems of a Reader's Life'.

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.11^16.

Witness this new-made world, another heav'n From heaven gate not far, founded in view On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.617^22.

   Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge¤  ome¤  trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense¤  e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1653  Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

-Planck, Max Karl Ernst
  Where is Science Going? pt.4 (translated byJames Murphy).

Gertie recommended her to adopt the habit of not magnifying grievances; if you wanted to view trouble, you could take opera-glasses, but you should be careful to hold them the wrong way round.

-Ridge,W(illiam) Pett
  Love at Paddington Green, ch.4.

At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

-Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730
c.1776  On her first sight of the country around Cape Fear. Journal of a Lady of Quality; BeingtheNarrative of aJourney from Scotland to theWest Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years1774 to1776.

This is the prospect from the watershed, and when the traveller reaches it, it is a good thing to take an hour's leisure and lookout on the visible portions of the journey, since never in one's life can one seethe same view twice.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  Perseus in theWind.

Quot homines tot sententiae: suo quoique mos. Thereareasmanyopinions astherearepeople: eachhas his own view.

-Terence full name PubliusTerentius Afer
  BC  Phormio, 454.