Writing, for him who knows it is better than all other professions; it pleases more than bread and beer, more than clothing and ornament.
Please Quotes
No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
The worst things: To try to sleep and sleep not. To wait for one who comes not. To try to please and please not.
For we who live to please must please to live.
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.
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.
Please all, and you will please none.
