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Quotes About Satisfaction

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
~ Jane Taylor
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
~ Hugh Hood
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
~ Eugene Field
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
~ Samuel Johnson
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
~ J. K. Galbraith
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
~ Samuel Johnson
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
~ Jean Paul Richter
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
~ Goethe
Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
~ Boethius
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.
~ Harriet Rochlin
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
~ Sigmund Freud
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
~ French proverb
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
~ Virgil
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
~ Epictetus
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
~ Richard L. Evans
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
~ John Oliver Hobbes
Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
~ Thomas Sprat
While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
~ Dan Millman
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
~ Epicurus