“ A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2K
“ There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The case is over. I'm thrilled. I'm glad that the prosecution felt the case was worthy of dismissal. It just shows that someone can accuse you of anything. ”
- Christian Slater- Copy
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“ I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
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“ You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 1.5K
“ He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ”
- A. W. Tozer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Right now, this record, everybody's thrilled about it. Everybody wants to make their opinions about it, and it's all good. I'm happy with it. Make your opinions. I'm going to go out there and play ball and just kick butt. ”
- Barry Bonds- Copy
- 2K
“ My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. ”
- Cardinal De Richelieu- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ”
- Saint Augustine- Copy
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“ Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. ”
- Frederick Saunders- Copy
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“ Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 3.6K
“ To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 2.4K
“ My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. ”
- Philip Streifer- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. ”
- Ida R. Wylie- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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