Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.
“I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Cllected Works, vol. 1. p. 119
1830s
Context: I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I won’t be satisfied with anything less than everything”
Source: A Night Like This
“My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.”
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“None of us can be satisfied with the status quo. Not by a long shot.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119
1830s
March 18(?), 1888
General Correspondence
