Side Quotes - Page 4

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

Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.

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.

The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.

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

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

When you become 100 life changes completely.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

It is not how old you are but how you are old.

It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent

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

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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.

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.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

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?

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

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.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.

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

my heart feels so narrow in the wide space of love; because wherever it is, i feel, you're always there, fill its space and sides