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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
— Jane Austen
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
— Neil Gaiman
Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.
— Virginia Woolf
The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
— Nellie L. McClung
The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
— Thiruvalluvar
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
— John Keats
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
— William O. Douglas
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
— Ameen Rihani
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
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
— Louis XIV
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
— Charles Kingsley
Unless the soul is fed and exercised daily, it becomes weak and shriveled. It remains discontented, confused, restless.
— Billy Graham
And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.
— E. M. Forster
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.
— Thomas S. Monson
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
— Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
[R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
— Vincent De Paul
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
— Frank Herbert
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
— George Herbert
The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.
— Pearl S. Buck
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
— Thomas Carlyle
Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
— Bella Pollen
When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.
— Louisa May Alcott
But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse.
— Patrick O'Brian
For the contented man, lake is an ocean; for the discontented one, ocean is a lake!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I never saw a discontented tree.
— John Muir
The world belongs to the discontented.
— Oscar Wilde
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
— Andres Segovia
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
— Florence Nightingale
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
— Craig Groeschel
Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ...
— Francis Marion Crawford
Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.
— Benjamin Franklin
I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
— Benjamin Franklin