Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

The unconscious is the alone complete. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Complete self-devotion is woman's part. [ Macaulay ]

She that has that is clad in complete steel. [ Milton ]

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. [ H. W. Shaw ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

Any confidence is dangerous that is not complete. [ La Bruyere ]

Knowledge, love, power, - there is the complete life. [ Amiel ]

No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead. [ Longfellow ]

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Reason's progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. [ Young ]

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pin-heads. [ Holmes ]

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. [ John Stuart Mill ]

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. [ George Eliot ]

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete. [ Rückert ]

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. [ Beaconsfield ]

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. [ Milton ]

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. [ Hannah More ]

Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. [ Henry Giles ]

Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. [ Lamartine ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]