There are many famous and time-worn sayings that often crop up in daily conversation. For instance there’s “Many hands make light work.” Sadly, I only have two, but I get the point.
“A stitch in time saves nine” is another. I don’t sew, so I couldn’t vouch for this one. Another familiar old saw is “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
” I don’t cook, but I have broken a few eggs in my time, clumsy me. One I can truly relate to is “It was like herding cats.” I attempt that with our two on a daily basis, with varying degrees of failure.
“Money can’t buy happiness.” That old saying has been around a long time, but a recent study took issue with the fact that cash can’t provide us with contentment. The study, conducted by a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, showed that rich people are happier than those in the lower income brackets.
Mark Killingsworth sampled more than 33,000 employed Americans between 18 and 65 with annual household incomes of at least $10,000. These folks answered questions, ranking their feelings on a scale called “satisfaction with life.” He found the happiness gap between wealthy and middle income individuals was wider than between middle- and low-income participants.
“The difference in life satisfaction between the wealthy and those with incomes of $70,000-$80,000 was nearly three times as large as the difference between $70,000-$80,000 and the average of the two lo.