Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

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

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

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

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

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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

Money ain't everything.

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

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

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

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.