260 quotes found
“Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.”
“We all envy other people's luck.”
“When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.”
“I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.”
“When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.”
“To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.”
“Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.”
“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”
“Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.”
“He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.”
“We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.”
“In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.”
“In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”
“Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.”
“It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.”
“There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."”
“Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“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.”
“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.”
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
