Greg Davies Quotes

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

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

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.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

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.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

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

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

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.'

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

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.

I am totally unattached to material items.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I live a pretty simple life.