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| A competence is vital to content. Young. | 1 |
| A contented man is always rich. Latin. | 2 |
| A contented ass enjoys a long life. Portuguese. | 3 |
| A contented mind is a continual feast. | 4 |
| A contented mind is a specific for making gold. Tamil. | 5 |
| Be content, the sea hath fish enough. | 6 |
Content can soothe where’er by fortune placed,
Can rear a garden in the desert waste. H. K. White. | 7 |
| Content is happiness. | 8 |
| Content is an inexhaustible treasure. Turkish. | 9 |
| Content is more than a kingdom. | 10 |
| Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches into gold. | 11 |
| Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces. | 12 |
| Content yourself with your own skin. (Fable of the ass dressed in the lion’s skin.) | 13 |
| Contentment gives a crown where fortune has denied it. Ford. | 14 |
| Contentment is to the mind what a frame is to a cucumber, sunning it and lifting it even from a dunghill. | 15 |
| Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot. | 16 |
| He has enough who is content. Italian. | 17 |
| He may well be contented that need not lie nor flatter. | 18 |
| He that is content with his poverty is wonderfully rich. | 19 |
| He that can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move. Danish. | 20 |
| He that cannot get bacon must be content with cabbage. Danish. | 21 |
| He who wants content can’t find an easy chair. | 22 |
| Let every one be content with what God has given him. Portuguese. | 23 |
| Let us thank God and be content with what we have. | 24 |
| No one is content with his own lot. Portuguese. | 25 |
| Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. Greek. | 26 |
| Our content is our best having. Shakespeare. | 27 |
| Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes. Spanish. | 28 |
| The noblest mind the best contentment has. Spenser. | 29 |
| They need much whom nothing will content. | 30 |
| To be content with little is true happiness. Tacitus. | 31 |
| To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling. Italian. | 32 |
| What’s an estate good for if it cannot buy content? | 33 |
| Who is content is rich enough. German. | 34 |
| Who is not satisfied with his condition is a great fool. German. | 35 |
| Who is well seated should not budge. German. | 36 |
| You must be content sometimes with rough roads. | 37 |
| You must contrive to bake with the flour you have. Danish. | 38 |
| You must plough with such oxen as you have. | 39 |
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