Quotes About Contentment

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

I'm happy. I have a man who makes me happy. And a family, which is what I most wanted in life.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.