Quotes About Satisfaction

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have

It is not empathy I seek. I found what I was looking for... envy me!

My work is done why wait.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Lack nothing: be merry.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.