#plea

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Horace

#friend #great #great man #man #never

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#almost #draw #even #extinguish #may

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#became #doing #feels #good #i

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#career #ever #going #how #i

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#care #clock #day #itself #pleasant

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#irritating #nothing #pleasantly #while #who

I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#everything #go #happy #heaven #how

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair! ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#cap #done #dress #hair #i

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#commit #disagreeable #does #just #like