Content is happiness. [ Proverb ]
He has enough who is content. [ French Proverb ]
Content is better than riches. [ Proverb ]
Content is more than a kingdom. [ Proverb ]
Our content is our best having. [ William Shakespeare ]
Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]
Where content is there is a feast. [ Proverb ]
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground. [ Pope ]
Pride is the sworn enemy to content. [ Proverb ]
O! the gallant fisher's life.
It is the best of any:
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife
And 'tis beloved by many.
Other joys
Are but toys;
Only this,
Lawful is;
For our skill
Breeds no ill,
But content and pleasure. [ Izaak Walton ]
Be content, the sea hath fish enough. [ Proverb ]
He that studies his content, wants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy,
What mair hae queens upon a throne? [ Burns ]
Content to follow when we lead the way. [ Homer ]
Content thyself to live obscurely good. [ Joseph Addison ]
Content is the true philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]
This is the last of earth! I am content. [ John Quincy Adams ]
Let it content thee that thou art a man. [ Lessing ]
The wisest, happiest of our kind are they
That ever walk content with Nature's way. [ Wordsworth ]
They need much whom nothing will content. [ Proverb ]
I cannot be content with less than heaven. [ Bailey ]
Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown. [ Heywood ]
A little bird is content with a little nest. [ Proverb ]
You must be content to taste your own broth. [ Proverb ]
Whatever comes, let's be content withal;
Among God's blessings there is no one small. [ Herrick ]
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. [ Shakespeare ]
The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]
Burn and not smoulder, win by worth,
Not rest content with a wealth that's dearth! [ Robert Browning ]
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. [ Dryden after Hor ]
Great wealth and content seldom live together. [ Proverb ]
Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. [ Willis ]
You must be content sometimes with rough roads. [ Proverb ]
Cats are hungry when a crust will content them. [ Proverb ]
Wealth and content do not always live together. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill turn. [ Bacon ]
Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces. [ Proverb ]
Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]
To be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content. [ James Hurdts ]
Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]
Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]
Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth. [ Proverb ]
What is an estate good for, if it cannot buy content? [ Proverb ]
Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. [ St. Paul ]
They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this. [ Moore ]
They that walk in the sun must be content to be tanned. [ Proverb ]
If the parson be from home, be content with the curate. [ Proverb ]
He that hath good corn may be content with some thistles. [ Proverb ]
He that deserves nothing should be content with anything. [ Proverb ]
Where dainties are not to be had, be content with common fare. [ Proverb ]
I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. [ Bible ]
Impatience makes every ill double, but content makes it none at all. [ Proverb ]
For one rich man that is content, there are an hundred that are not. [ Proverb ]
The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. [ Foster ]
He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It ]
Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. [ Proverb ]
If you be not content, put your hand in your pocket and please yourself. [ Proverb ]
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]
He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates ]
The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things. [ Pascal ]
Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]
One year of joy, another of comfort, the rest of content, make the married life happy. [ Proverb ]
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. [ Halifax ]
The wisest know at highest only how destiny is leading them, and are therewith content. [ Forster ]
Fly from the crowd, and be to virtue true. Content with what thou hast, though it be small. [ Chaucer ]
They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. [ Sir Robert Howard ]
Let us be content, in work, to do the thing we CAN and not presume to fret because it's little. [ E. B. Browning ]
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
To be rational is so glorious a thing that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. [ Locke ]
He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life. He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. [ Proverb ]
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. [ Fenelon ]
A storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing farm, cause no anxiety to him who is content with enough. [ Horace ]
I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. [ Thomas Edwards ]
Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals. [ Bovee ]
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it. [ Seneca ]
In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. [ Bacon ]
Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]
In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]
All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity. [ Voltaire ]
Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it; and with this I begin and end. [ John Newton ]
By reasoning we satisfy ourselves: by rhetoric we satisfy others. Most modern orators and rhetoricians content themselves with fulfilling the first part of this proposition. [ P. B. Randolph ]
We content ourselves to present to thinking minds the original seeds from whence spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. [ Chevalier Ramsay ]
Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]
Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Love is not an intellectual admiration, a gratified imagination. It is too intangible for definement; but the soul knoweth its presence, by its fullness of content in the beloved. [ Mrs. Oakes Smith ]
The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]
Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]
The curse and peril of language in our day, and particularly in this country, is that it is at the mercy of men who, instead of being content to use it well according to their honest ignorance, use it ill according to their affected knowledge. [ Richard Grant White ]
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]
There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curiously kept and the sluggard's field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns; the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within. [ Feltham ]