Unenvied Quotes & Sayings

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. — Samuel Johnson

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. — Diana Wynne Jones

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat. — Rob Thurman

For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I. — Fredrika Bremer

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. — Francis Bacon

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus

Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth. — Juan Enriquez

There's no gain, without pain. — Benjamin Franklin

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us. — Marion Woodman

You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'
It's a gift. — Christina Dodd

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. — Plutarch

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
[Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.] — Ovid

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it ... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both ... Let me never deny that ... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments. — Susan Sontag

One thing my father taught me," he told her quietly, "is that everyone has their price. From the highest to the lowest, we will all bargain. It's just a matter of finding what yours is. — Jayne Castel

The unenvied man is not enviable. — Aeschylus

Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness. — Michael R. Fletcher