Dorothy Parker Quotes

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

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

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I'm not overly greedy.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

I have more than I will ever need for one life.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.