Quotes About Contentment

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.