260 quotes found
“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.”
“Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.”
“Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.”
“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”
“Other people's eggs have two yolks.”
“No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.”
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
“Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.”
“Envy eats nothing but its own heart.”
“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.”
“Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”
“There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.”
“As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.”
“Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.”
“Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.”
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
