Quotes About Desire

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.