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

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

It pleases me that people can be interactive.
Tracey Emin

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

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

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

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Charles Simmons

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Ausonius

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

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
Mary Catherine Bateson

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

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
Henri La Fontaine

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
John Norman

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

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Carl Van Vechten

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

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

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