Side Quotes - Page 3

I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.

Brigitte Bardot

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it then you worry where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Brigitte Bardot

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Thomas à Kempis

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.

Johann L. von Mosheim

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

William Shakespeare

If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

Princess Anne of England

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Euripides

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Euripides

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.

Barbra Streisand

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Emily Dickinson

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.

If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.

Nathaniel Cotton

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Foe Ancis

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

Anonymous

Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.

Dr. Frank Crane

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

Bettina von Hutton

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Men would be angels angels would be gods.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Pietro Metastasio

Misfortunes come to all men.

Chinese Proverb

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Sylvester Stallone

If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

Wilt Chamberlain

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Robert Browning

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

Charlton Ogburn

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Antonio Machado

He who would be happy should stay at home.

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.

Anonymous

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

John Cage

Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Aesop

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Horace

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

Charles Baudelaire

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Margaret Mitchell

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

No one is content with his own lot.

Horace

Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

L. Susan Stebbing

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