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Discontented Quotes

Discontented Definition

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason Cooley

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Laurence Sterne

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