Side Quotes - Page 4

Every stage of life has its troubles and no man is content with his own age.

Ausonius

We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Tallulah Bankhead

When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."

Michel de Montaigne

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

Anonymous

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Anonymous

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

Terence

We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

François Rabelais

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

Chinese Proverb

We all envy other people's luck.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What you can't get is just what suits you.

The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

Toni Cade Bambara

Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.

Alice Duer Miller

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Therese of Lisieux

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Honoré de Balzac

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

John Churton Collins

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

William Hazlitt

Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Baltasar Gracián

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Brontë

Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.

Colette

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Cicero

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Thornton Wilder

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Hungarian proverb

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Irving Thalberg

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Solon

Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.

Saint John Chrysostom

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