Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

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

Money can't buy happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

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

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Money cannot buy happiness.

Americans have spent their way to happiness.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

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

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.