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J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05 · John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent · John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2 · Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind. – Eric Mascall
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least. – Socrates
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today – Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the e-age, e-wind is any e-push (forwarding, highlighting or repeating) given to your content by others. – Chase LeBlanc
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. – Samuel Johnson
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. – William Ellery Channing
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone – William Shakespeare
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. – Warren Bennis
'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. – William Shakespeare
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. – Charles de Montesquieu
Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. – Montesquieu
Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything. – Aesop
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. – Aesop, Juno and the Peacock
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. – Paul Valery
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. – Paul Valery
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. – Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. – Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. – Isaac Watts
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred De Musset

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