Roger McGuinn Quotes

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

There's no such thing as enough.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

When we have got it, we want something else.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

having too much is never enough.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.