Quotes About Contentment

The unenvied man is not enviable.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

You can't please everybody, man.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

Joy is the life of man's life.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness... I mean, it helps.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.