Quotes About Satisfaction

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.