Quotes About Satisfaction

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

I am happy in my prison of passion

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

The living always think that gold can make them happy

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

A book is completed only when its finished by a reader.

Elige un trabajo que te guste y no tendrás que trabajar ni un día de tu vida.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things

After people are clothed and fed, then they think about sex

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd always wanted.