Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
The great source of pleasure is variety.
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Pleasure itself is not a vice.
For we who live to please must please to live.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is much oftener of base extraction, the child of vanity and nursling of ignorance.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
