Horace Quotes

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I'm happy without money.

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.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

My material life is simple.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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.'

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

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

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

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

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

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Me, I don't need money.