If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. Arthur Chapman
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.-Harold Coffin
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. --Salvador Dali
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. Robert Fulghum
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.-Ivan Illich
The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.-- Paul Johnson
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), _The Rambler_ [1750-1752], #172
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. --- Helen Keller
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.-- Helmut Schoeck
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. It's just as hard to chew. You've got to mow it, too. It's just different grass. -Bob Smith
Our envy of others devours us most of all. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice." -- Thomas Sowell
Covetousness is dry drunkeness. - THOMAS WATSON
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