Thomas Fuller Quotes

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

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

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

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.

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

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Not everything is about money.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

After the first million, money isn't important.

I'm happy without money.