Envies Quotes

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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought… — Sholom Aleichem
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is… — William Faulkner
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Gautama Buddha
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. — Jacques Rigaut
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… — John Ruskin
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your… — Marie Dressler
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to… — Margaret Mead
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help. — Yeardley Smith
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. — William Hazlitt
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Cesare Pavese
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. — Robert M. Pirsig
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the… — C.S. Lewis
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.… — Tom Robbins
My New Yearâ€™s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories,… — Patricia Highsmith
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different. — Ludwig von Mises
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly… — Soren Kierkegaard

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