Izaak Walton Quotes

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.

We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing - hunger; they have a thousand worries.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.