Quotes About Contentment

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.