Satiety Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
— Minna Antrim
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From abundance springs satiety.
— Livy
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He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and…
— Evelyn Waugh
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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
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
— Solon
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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
— Heraclitus
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There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
— Homer
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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
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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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