satisfied quotes

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment†but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

-Walter Bagehot
  Essay on Macaulay.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 27:20.

   Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque? You ask me, Lesbia, how many kisses it will take to make me fully satisfied?

-Catullus full name  Gaius Valerius Catullus
Carmina, no.7.

That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Massey won't be satisfied until he's assassinated.

- George S(imon) Kaufman
  Of Raymond Massey in the title role of  Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Recalled on Kaufman's death, 2  Jun1961.

War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.

- (Joseph) Ernest Renan
La Re  forme intellectuelle et morale.

Weare not going after Saddam Hussein.If I caneliminate his ability to communicate with his forces, I would be entirely satisfied with that result.

- H Norman Schwarzkopf
  Press briefing on the start of the Gulf War,15 Jan.

No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.

-John Millington Synge
  Riders to the Sea.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Concluding words.Vanity Fair, ch.67.

To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous† I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

- Anthony Trollope
  The Small House at Allington, ch.4.