Ogden Nash Quotes

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I am rich enough.

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.

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

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.