A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
Robbie Fowler

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.
Alex Morrison

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
Jane Grey

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
George Steinbrenner

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.
Benjamin Cohen

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
John James Audubon

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

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

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
Brendan Fraser

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
Anne Hutchinson

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker