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I am looking for a quote on the lines of the Grass is greener on the otherside or something about wanting what you can not have. Thanks for you help

The quote goes "The grass is greener on the other side until you get there." or "The grass is greener on the other side but when you really get there it's astroturf." I don't know who said the first one but I made up the second one so if you use it don't foreget where you got it.

" Someoen once told me the grass is much greener on the other side; but from where i'm standing, my grass is green."

The "grass being greener" line is a proverb.

The grass is always greener on the other side, until a horse comes and poops on it.

"The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close."
- Albert Grashuis

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. 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, in It was On Fire When I Lay Down on It, Ivy Books, 1989
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"The lure of adultery can be seen in the old saying: 'The Grass Is Greener On The Other Side Of The Fence.' Yet, the grass is greener where you mow it, fertilize it, water it, and take care of it."
-- Unknown

"But, we ask, what will happen to our drive for progress if we see all opposites are one? Well, with any luck, it will stop--and with it that peculiar discontent that thrives on the illusion that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But we should be clear about this. I do not mean that we will cease making advancements of a sort in medicine, agriculture, and technology. We will only cease to harbor the illusion that happiness depends on it. For when we see through the illusions of our boundaries, we will see, here and now, the universe as Adam saw it before the Fall: an organic unity, a harmony of opposites, a melody of positive and negative, delight with the play of our vibratory existence. When the opposites are realized to be one, discord melts into concord, battles become dances, and old enemies become lovers. We are then in a position to make friends with all of our universe, and not just one half of it."
--Ken Wilber, No Boundary , p. 29
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"Maybe the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because that is where the leaky septic tank is buried.”
~ Antony L. Ingram

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring. In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. Such a day is a truce to vice. While such a sun holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return. Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. You may have known your neighbor yesterday for a thief, a drunkard, or a sensualist, and merely pitied or despised him, and despaired of the world; but the sun shines bright and warm this first spring morning, recreating the world, and you meet him at some serene work, and see how it is exhausted and debauched veins expand with still joy and bless the new day, feel the spring influence with the innocence of infancy, and all his faults are forgotten. There is not only an atmosphere of good will about him, but even a savor of holiness groping for expression, blindly and ineffectually perhaps, like a new-born instinct, and for a short hour the south hill-side echoes to no vulgar jest. You see some innocent fair shoots preparing to burst from his gnarled rind and try another year's life, tender and fresh as the youngest plant. Even he has entered into the joy of his Lord. Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors -- why the judge does not dismis his case -- why the preacher does not dismiss his congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint which God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Spring
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The grass is greener on the other side

until you get over ther and find out you cant affor the bill!

until you get over there and realize it was weeds!

until you get over there and realize this requires maintance too(for those lazy people).

until you get over there and realize that its bad grass and full of bugs!

The grass is greener on the other side and you can't afford the water bill.