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

Ausonius

I feel very happy with this contract. This team has a lot of tradition, and it pleases me to know that they want me to pitch for them.

Octavio Dotel

Who ever enters here, honors me; who ever does not-- pleases me.

Anatole France

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

C. Wright Mills

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

Charles Simmons

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

He's a great athlete. He can play multiple positions, he can throw and run. As the quarterback, he has the most freedom. He can do what he pleases with the football, as long as he does it within the offense.

Carlos Harvest

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Henry Clay

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

It just pleases me that finally she found what she wants to do. It makes me feel good, to believe that she's normal, just like any other kid.

Liz Bohning

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

It really pleases me that 'Maat' did so well, ... You don't see a lot of mixed media art like mine in galleries and it felt good to know that people enjoyed her.

Julie Mitchell

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

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

I like playing with different materials. I like being in that nonverbal place in my head. I get to do something that makes people happy, which pleases me. I get to work outdoors and not go to a job.

Frank Hyman

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

Larry Wall

Right on, ... I always thought of us as 'All for one, one for all,' like the Three Musketeers. There's an abiding camaraderie that pleases everybody. It's the life of the group.

Scott Carpenter

It's up across the board, and that's what pleases me more than anything.

Gwen Mackenzie

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Harold Lindsell

A good wine is something that pleases you and that you like because it satisfies your taste and knowledge and passion in wine.

Angelo Gaja

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

Angie Bjorklund

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

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

Cate Blanchett

We've got a spare room, and he can come and go as he pleases. He won't have to worry about a hotel, and he'll get a few home-cooked meals from my wife. ... He's bigger than me, though, so I can't lay down the law too much.

Scott Thornton

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Joanna Baillie

It always surprises me, and pleases me, that they still come because they enjoy it. At this age, it takes a physical effort.

George Baker