All things Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Download Open image “Who is content with nothing possesses all things.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Funny Happiness Inspirational Love Success
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“The true asset before any human being on this planet are... Enthusiasm & Will... with these everything comes from nothingness & devoid of them… — Dinesh Kumar Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image