Satiety Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent… — George Chapman
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety… — Plutarch
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and… — Bartholomew Roberts
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. — Minna Antrim
From abundance springs satiety. — Livy
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. — Ambrose Bierce
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. — Ambrose Bierce
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking — Michel de Montaigne
Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage. — Solon
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. — Heraclitus
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. — Homer
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison

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