Logo
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation w

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Men
Author
Thomas Jefferson
Read Quote

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
best
Author
Thomas Jefferson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. – Charles Caleb Colton

Category:
Happiness

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Happiness

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

Category:
Happiness

I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. – John Burroughs

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. – Steve Hackett

Category:
Music

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

Category:
Books

I am convinced that a light supper, a good nights sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Heroes/Heroism

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. – Patrick Wilson

Category:
Morning