Art Buchwald Quotes

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

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 feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

He who is contented is rich.

I can't rely on my money to be happy.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I have a good life.

I'm happy without money.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.