Pleases Quotes

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.
Chanakya

Good, Morning, Mother

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.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Khalil Gibran

Others, Advice, Act

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.
H. L. Mencken

Nice, Woman, May

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

Power, Freedom, Law

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal

Alone, Struggle, Victory

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal

Alone, Fight, Victory

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

May, Him, America

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.
Harry S. Truman

Together, Country, Desire

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.
George Santayana

Truth, Simple, Philosophy

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt

Perfect, Liberty, Soul

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.
Jorge Luis Borges

Thinking, Night, Through

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Stendhal

Less, Everybody, Profoundly

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney

Music, Nothing, Room

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Passion, Everything, Liberty

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Reason, Example, Characters

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Give, Same

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time, Long, Longer

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Care, May

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.
Dean Koontz

Good, Days, Three

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure

Marriage, God, Selfish

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

Trying, Film, Mine

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
Charlotte Bronte

Easy, Belief, Creed

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.
Maria Mitchell

Today, Learned, Young

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.
George P. Baker

Human, Play, Makes

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

Law, Light, Conditions

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
Maurice Strong

Everybody, Almost, Agenda

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.
Andre Malraux

War, Win, Revolution

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
Charlaine Harris

Else, Write, Somebody

It pleases me that people can be interactive.
Tracey Emin

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