Contentment Quote by Bernard Williams Download Open image “We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.” — Bernard Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Flowers Happiness May Victory
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are gold, now get on your knees and do what your told. ;) — Kaycee Copy Share Image
Roses are red violets are blue those flowers are for me not for you... — Gothsynyster Copy Share Image
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue. you're with her now, and I'm happy for you. violets are blue, roses are red. just kidding, I… — Author Name Copy Share Image
Roses are blue, violets are red, if you come near me one more time I will chop off your head! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
