Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. From LearnThat.org. [Benjamin Franklin]
Saw many discontent faces in the room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I know that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer. From Wordnik.com. [Orhan Pamuk - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The nerve centre of this discontent is the steam room, itself a source of perennial complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Holden's All ears] Reference
Mr. Miller attributes his voter appeal to what he calls discontent over expansion of the federal government. From Wordnik.com. [Low-Profile Alaskan Swaps Law Court for the Limelight] Reference
At the root of the discontent is the desire to have practical, not ideological, solutions to intractable problems. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Penn: Who Will Win the Midterms?] Reference
The long-term discontent needs to be factored in as well. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
A new inwardness, a discontent, is seeping across the country. From Wordnik.com. [From Russia, With Self-Loathing] Reference
The tsunami of voter discontent is coming again this November. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’] Reference
One area of conspicuous discontent is about mystery in the system. From Wordnik.com. [How You'll Get From Here to There in 2020] Reference
Emerson says, "A healthy discontent is the first step to progress.". From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
NEW ORLEANS Syracuse's long winter of basketball discontent is over. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Anthony, Syracuse soar past Kansas to first NCAA title] Reference
Being discontent is being out of step with the creator and the creation. From Wordnik.com. [Contentment] Reference
The widespread discontent is popping up at high-profile political events. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » VIDEO: Protester Disrupts Bolton Hearing] Reference
Demonstrator Nathalie Jalowezak says the discontent is not just about one bill. From Wordnik.com. [French Brace for More Demonstrations Against Reforms] Reference
But they are now being heard as never before - in this year of midterm discontent. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > U.S.] Reference
As I point out in the piece, simmering discontent is a fact of Anglican existence. From Wordnik.com. [A Flock Divided] Reference
The Guardian says not to worry, the discontent is only among the older set, who are more prone to burn-out. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-01-01] Reference
Well, the voters have a big message to send to you Mr. Anticolonialist: the winter of our discontent is coming!. From Wordnik.com. [Talk to the hand] Reference
But, again, that discontent is largely rooted in sources that are outside of a specific desire to see McGinn succeed. From Wordnik.com. [Only One Dealmaker « PubliCola] Reference
But I hold with old Cicero that the "whole glory of virtue is in activity," and therefore I call my discontent divine. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
The source of this discontent is not only that every reality, no matter how perfect it is, sooner or later disappoints us. From Wordnik.com. [Žižek v. ‘Avatar’ « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Iraqi discontent translates into sympathy for anti-US (pro-Iranian) politicians, if not outright support for the insurgency. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for an End to Iraq] Reference
The main cause of their discontent is a limping economy. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama is down, but it's far too early to count him out] Reference
The great source of my discontent is the want of employment. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
The vagueness of his discontent is the mark of its permanence. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
And now when the discontent was at its height Laudonnière fell ill. From Wordnik.com. [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference
"Beneath the discontent is a simmering intra-Bihar feud within the BJP," said a leader. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
The source of their discontent is the Unified State Exam, or yediny gosudarstvenny ekzamen. From Wordnik.com. [Schools Matter] Reference
Since they offered no specifics I can only assume the source of their discontent is our forum. From Wordnik.com. [Many, many thanks - BatesLine] Reference
Trichinopoli, several of them are in a state of discontent, which is likely soon to break out into open hostilities. From Wordnik.com. [With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire] Reference
We are too isolated in our discontent, which is why we seek escape in celebrity infidelities and reality television. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
Whether the Whigs had or had not cause for their discontent is another question, on which it is unnecessary now to enter. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
There's also a vaguer kind of discontent among many Australians. From Wordnik.com. [The Election-Day Forecast] Reference
Why, it's all along of our "discontent," and the Agitator's insidious guile. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
Political oppression has contributed largely to the discontent which is the prime cause of the exodus. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
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