Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

John Bunyan

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

John Heywood

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

George Ade

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Frank A. Clark

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

Virgil

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Thomas a Kempis

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

Joe Greene

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

Beatrix Potter

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

Elizabeth Montagu

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Juvenal

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

L. Lionel Kendrick

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

William Safire

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

William McDonough

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

William Jennings Bryan

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.