Quotes About Contentment

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

He that has and a little tiny wit,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,Must make content with his fortunes fit,Though the rain it raineth every day.

Shut upIn measureless content.

All's well if all ends well.

Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.

'Tis better to be lowly born,And range with humble livers in content,Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring griefAnd wear a golden sorrow.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I would not be a queenFor all the world.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

I could be well contentTo entertain the lag-end of my lifeWith quiet hours.

Who doth ambition shun,And loves to live i' the sun,Seeking the food he eats,And pleas'd with what he gets.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

If it were now to die,'Twere now to be most happy.

We go to gain a little patch of groundThat hath in it no profit but the name.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

For it so falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhiles it was ours.

Now my soul hath elbow-room.

Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I think on thee.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head;Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,Nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content;A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.