“Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all”
Mark Twain
“Beggars can't be choosy. We're just happy to get into the playoffs. So, we don't care where we have to go. We're in the playoffs now and we know who we're going to play. So let's get ready to go.”
Joey Porter
“Be choosy. Fill yourself a plate and ideally your should go sit down away from the buffet. Then you know you have eaten.”
Kathleen Zelman
“Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.”
Plutarch
“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.”
John Piper
“It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.”
Leigh Hunt
