97 Grass Is Greener Quotes

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Famous Grass Is Greener Quotes

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. — English Proverbs

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. — Robert Fulghum

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf. - Nicky Gumbel

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf. — Nicky Gumbel

The grass will always look greener on the other side until you start watering the side you’re on. — Steven Bartlett

The grass isn't always greener on the other side! — Ricky Gervais

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. — Debbie Macomber

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead. — Jim Cornette

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too. — Joyce Meyer

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard! — Craig Groeschel

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people. — Kevin Durant

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home — Sayings

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be. — Bob Marley

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut. — Little Richard

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. — Rudyard Kipling

Short Grass Is Greener Quotes

  • The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender. — DJ Khaled
  • May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. — Frank Richard Stockton
  • Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
  • People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. — P. J. Harvey
  • If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. — Cher
  • In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing — T. S. Eliot
  • You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
  • Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. — Confucius

Grass Is Greener Image Quotes

Grass is greener quote No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.

Grass Is Always Greener Quotes

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. 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

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it — Justin Bieber

The grass is always greener over the septic tank. — Erma Bombeck

Grass is greener quote If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous. — Ekaterina Sedia

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people. — Chrissy Teigen

When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered. — Ezra Taft Benson

Grass is greener quote The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.
The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives. — Pico Iyer

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. — Patrick Ewing

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't. — Unknown

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy. — Joe Buck

Grass Is Greener On The Other Side Quotes

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time. — Laura Fraser

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence. — Douglas Adams

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence? — Teresa Bloomingdale

Grass is greener quote The Grass is greener where you water it
The Grass is greener where you water it

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master. — Earl Nightingale

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. — Rob Sheffield

...the grass actually IS greener on the other side, but it's only because of the bodies buried there. — Robert Ford

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. — Ernie J Zelinski

Green Grass Quotes

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. — Leigh Hunt

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. — Christina Rossetti

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. — Henri Matisse

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. - Bill Shankly

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly

Proper supplementation with B vitamins from natural sources like green leafy veggies and grass-fed meats aids in downregulating catacolamines, impacting anxiety incidence. — Gary Brecka

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl. — Van Morrison

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over. — Hayao Miyazaki

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool. — Rick Riordan

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers. — Andre Leon Talley

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More Grass Is Greener Quotes

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world. — Edna Ferber

If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that. — KRS-One

If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn! — Michael Beckwith

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it. — Fred Allen

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger. — Rick Warren

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not. — Ice Cube

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor. — Groucho Marx

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own. — Cameron Diaz

I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people." — Aisha Tyler

My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener. — Wendy Harmer

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground. — Eric Lange

My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards. — Hilarie Burton

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that! — Marti Webb

When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking! — Mark Grace

I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere. — Gilles Marini

I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time. — Chuck Ragan

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore. — R. K. Milholland

There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?" — Jude Law

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. — Jeff Rich

When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. — Zach Galifianakis

The grass is always greener when it's covered in money. — Craig Benzine

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