Robert Morse Quotes

I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

My material life is simple.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

It is great to have some stability for myself, not only for myself but my family as well.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

What my home life is like now is great.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.