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Quotes About Satisfaction

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Man does not live by GNP alone.
~ Paul Samuelson
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
~ Petronius
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
~ Oscar Wilde
In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.
~ Rene Dubos
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
~ Robert Breault
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
~ Rudyard Kipling
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
~ Seneca the Younger
Working for the Man seemed really good to me.
~ Shepard Smith
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
~ Solon
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
~ Anne Bradstreet
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.
~ Bertrand Russell
I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates
~ Tamim Iqbal
No man is happy but by comparison.
~ Thomas Shadwell
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
~ Tom Standage
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
~ Ward McAllister
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
~ Henry Ward Beecher