He would gladly fly, but wants feathers. [ Proverb ]
No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
What I possess I would gladly retain; change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. [ Goethe ]
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremoney are two things. [ Marcus Antonius ]
Most gladly would I give the bloodstained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. [ Schiller ]
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. [ Emerson ]
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side.
If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]
There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]