Quotes about Pleases

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. Votes: 1

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. Votes: 1

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. Votes: 1

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Votes: 1

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. Votes: 1

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. Votes: 1

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. Votes: 1

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. Votes: 1

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. Votes: 1

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. Votes: 1

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. Votes: 1

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Votes: 1

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. Votes: 1

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. Votes: 1

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. Votes: 1

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. Votes: 1

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Votes: 1

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart. Votes: 1

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. Votes: 1

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me. Votes: 1

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. Votes: 1

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. Votes: 1

Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed. Votes: 1

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Votes: 1

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act. Votes: 1

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively. Votes: 1

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker. Votes: 0

Who pleases one against his will. Votes: 0

Treason pleases, but not the traitor. Votes: 0

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing Votes: 0

Investigate what is, and not what pleases. Votes: 0

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality. Votes: 0

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious. Votes: 0

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. Votes: 0

It pleases me that people can be interactive. Votes: 0

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Votes: 0

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough. Votes: 0

It pleases me that people can be interactive Votes: 0

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. Votes: 0

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. Votes: 0

We have confident; God gives only what pleases Him. Votes: 0

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases. Votes: 0

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ... Votes: 0

That least pleases us which is most urged on us. Votes: 0

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.] Votes: 0

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. Votes: 0

God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases. Votes: 0

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate. Votes: 0

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases. Votes: 0

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases Votes: 0

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. Votes: 0

The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one. Votes: 0

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. Votes: 0

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly Votes: 0

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. Votes: 0

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. Votes: 0

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. Votes: 0

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself. Votes: 0

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. Votes: 0

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. Votes: 0

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman. Votes: 0

It is not eye-service that pleases the Lord, but singleness of heart. Votes: 0

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. Votes: 0

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Votes: 0

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. Votes: 0

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Votes: 0

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases. Votes: 0

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. Votes: 0

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God. Votes: 0

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases. Votes: 0

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Votes: 0

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. Votes: 0

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.] Votes: 0

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. Votes: 0

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. Votes: 0

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else. Votes: 0

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character. Votes: 0

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools. Votes: 0

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles. Votes: 0

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. Votes: 0

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best Votes: 0

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases. Votes: 0

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? Votes: 0

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body. Votes: 0

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him. Votes: 0

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] Votes: 0

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. Votes: 0

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. Votes: 0

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. Votes: 0

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. Votes: 0

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. Votes: 0

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses. Votes: 0

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me. Votes: 0

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. Votes: 0

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please. Votes: 0

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. Votes: 0

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. Votes: 0

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. Votes: 0

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. Votes: 0

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one. Votes: 0

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. Votes: 0

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. Votes: 0

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. Votes: 0

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. Votes: 0

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful. Votes: 0

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. Votes: 0

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. Votes: 0

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. Votes: 0

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God. Votes: 0

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases Votes: 0

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases. Votes: 0

It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else. Votes: 0

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. Votes: 0

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. Votes: 0

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds Votes: 0

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases. Votes: 0

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? Votes: 0

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Votes: 0

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases. Votes: 0

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Votes: 0

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. Votes: 0

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. Votes: 0

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake. Votes: 0

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. Votes: 0

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him. Votes: 0

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases. Votes: 0

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. Votes: 0

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. Votes: 0

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine. Votes: 0

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay. Votes: 0

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Votes: 0

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. Votes: 0

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. Votes: 0

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed. Votes: 0

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know. Votes: 0

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state. Votes: 0

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end. Votes: 0

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases. Votes: 0

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. Votes: 0

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public. Votes: 0

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye. Votes: 0

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. Votes: 0

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will. Votes: 0

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love' there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections Votes: 0

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. Votes: 0

My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it. Votes: 0

It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron) Votes: 0

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win. Votes: 0

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. Votes: 0

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much. Votes: 0

Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility. Votes: 0

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. Votes: 0

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. Votes: 0

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may. Votes: 0

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior. Votes: 0

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"Not what he pleases, but what he can. Votes: 0

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives. Votes: 0

It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein. Votes: 0

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please. Votes: 0

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit. Votes: 0

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases. Votes: 0

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. Votes: 0

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. Votes: 0

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else. Votes: 0

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me. Votes: 0

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord." Votes: 0

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them. Votes: 0

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does. Votes: 0

What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the same. Votes: 0

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. Votes: 0

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence. Votes: 0

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike. Votes: 0

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him. Votes: 0

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. Votes: 0

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. Votes: 0

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life. Votes: 0

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping. Votes: 0

A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution. Votes: 0

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough. Votes: 0

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases. Votes: 0

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases. Votes: 0

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. Votes: 0

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel. Votes: 0

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem. Votes: 0

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. Votes: 0

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives. Votes: 0

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend. Votes: 0

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me. Votes: 0

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. Votes: 0

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. Votes: 0

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Votes: 0

Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord before he meets Him. Votes: 0

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith. Votes: 0

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one. Votes: 0

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant. Votes: 0

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease. Votes: 0

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. Votes: 0

You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you? Votes: 0

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. Votes: 0

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise. Votes: 0

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences. Votes: 0

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences. Votes: 0

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying. Votes: 0

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man. Votes: 0

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me Votes: 0

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. Votes: 0

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow. Votes: 0

If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man. Votes: 0

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you. Votes: 0

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching. Votes: 0

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Votes: 0

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. Votes: 0

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you. Votes: 0

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women. Votes: 0

The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them. Votes: 0

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us Votes: 0

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business. Votes: 0

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness. Votes: 0

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does. Votes: 0

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly. Votes: 0

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years. Votes: 0

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. Votes: 0

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift. Votes: 0

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image. Votes: 0

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood. Votes: 0

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least. Votes: 0

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject. Votes: 0

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives. Votes: 0

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. Votes: 0

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value. Votes: 0

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! Votes: 0

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. Votes: 0

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!" Votes: 0

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power. Votes: 0

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Votes: 0

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. Votes: 0

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases. Votes: 0

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases. Votes: 0

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced. Votes: 0

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. Votes: 0

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. Votes: 0

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. Votes: 0

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. Votes: 0

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance. Votes: 0