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Quotes About Satisfaction

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.
~ Roald Dahl
As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.
~ Robert Breault
I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.
~ Robert Frost
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
~ Joe Biden
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
~ John Dryden
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
~ John Keats
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm happy. I have a man who makes me happy. And a family, which is what I most wanted in life.
~ Shakira
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
~ Tacitus
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
~ Vance Havner
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
~ William Hazlitt
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.
~ Darynda Jones
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
~ George Farquhar
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
~ George Santayana
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
~ George Santayana
Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.
~ Keri Arthur, The Darkest Kiss
You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
~ Albert J. Nock
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
~ Alfred Korzybski