Quotes About Contentment

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

I would never disrespect a man's way of life, especially if they're happy.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.