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Quotes About Discontent

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
~ Karl Marx
DONNA: She doesn't like office equipment, so we let her come out here and tear up office equipment. For people who don't like TVs, they can break TVs. If you don't like cars, you can break cars. If you don't like living-room things, you can break living-room things. Do you have something that you don't like? KARL: Vandalism. So this doesn't really work for me, does it?
~ Karl Pilkington
I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.
~ Kate Atkinson
What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
~ Martial
Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
~ Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
~ Edmund Burke
Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
~ Robert Herrick
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.
~ John Steinbeck
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.
~ Adam Carolla
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.
~ Andre Maurois
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
~ Anthony Trollope
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.
~ Bob Dylan
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
~ George Herbert
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
~ George W. Buck
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
~ George Washington
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
~ John Steinbeck
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
~ Laozi
I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.
~ Dion DiMucci
We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money.
~ David