Quotes about Satisfaction
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
- Billy Sunday
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- Samuel Johnson
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
- Thomas Adams
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.
- Charles Spurgeon
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
- Dale Carnegie
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- Mark Twain
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
- Muhammad Ali
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne