Dean Inge Quotes

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole '$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,' but my experience is 'more is better, up to a point.' Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference.

As long as I'm living decent, then I'm cool.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

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

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.