The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.