Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 5:10
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
If you own a rug you own too much.
- Jack Kerouac
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
- Thomas Jefferson
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
- St. Anthony of Padua
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
- St. Jerome
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
- Alistair Begg
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
- DH Lawrence
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
- St. Basil
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
- Winston Churchill
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
- John Bunyan
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
- Viktor E. Frankl
I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.
- Reba McEntire