#plea

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#coffee #me #please #some #tea

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#fun #having #lots #nothing #pleasure

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. ↗

— Titus Livius

#certain #dissimilar #natural #nature #nevertheless

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#conversation #ever #fine #indifferent #many

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. ↗

— Anita Loos

#everything #free #insipid #paid #pleasure

High heels are pleasure with pain. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#high #high heels #pain #pleasure

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore. ↗

— Lance Loud

#pleasure

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#incredulity #many #nothing #pleasures #return

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#fear #identifying #intrinsic #natural #natural fear