He is rich that is satisfied. [ Proverb ]
Prudence is not satisfied with maybe's. [ Proverb ]
He is well paid that is well satisfied. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Every morsel to a satisfied hunger
Is only a new labor to a tired digestion. [ South ]
Envy and covetousness are never satisfied. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is not satisfied with wise sentences. [ Proverb ]
To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied is nor of heaven nor earth. [ William Shakespeare ]
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]
The world is satisfied with words: few care to dive beneath the surface. [ Pascal ]
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his own wit. [ Mme. Deshoulieres ]
I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. [ Herodotus ]
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. [ H. W. Beecher ]
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. [ Bible ]
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. [ Henry Home ]
The difference between love and possession is that one is an infinite desire, the other a satisfied desire. [ Saint-Prosper ]
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. [ S. Smiles ]
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. [ George Eliot ]
Of many imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. [ Dr. Johnson ]
We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. [ Pascal ]
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call of novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Let men of all ranks, whether they are successful or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not - let them do their duty, and rest satisfied. [ Plato ]
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. [ Plutarch ]
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion. [ Thomas Paine ]
It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]
Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]