Jules Michelet Quotes

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.

I prefer to stay poor.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

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

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.

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.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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

My material life is simple.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

I don't need a whole lot.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?