Best 9 quotes in «grass is greener quotes» category

Grass is greener at other people’s feet because they watered it. You need not to let your environment control you; you have what it takes to make it look beautiful!

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. "The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

Get busy watering your own grass so as not to notice whether it's greener elsewhere.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.

But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.

I looked through others' windows On an enchanted earth But out of my own window-- solitude and dearth. And yet there is a mystery I cannot understand-- That others through my window See an enchanted land.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.

Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.