Robert Herrick Quotes

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

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

The more we have the less we own.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

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

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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

I'm happy without money.

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

I'm not overly greedy.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

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

I live a pretty simple life.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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