#pleas

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #cast #character #common #common man

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#digging #imagine #lives #nothing #our

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. ↗

— James Schuyler

#enjoyed #interest #learn #pleasant #someone

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent. ↗

— Bill Scott

#contributors #disclosure #done #full #how

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #british #guess #guilty #guilty pleasure

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. ↗

— Seneca

#future #injure #ones #pleasures #present

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#everyone #i #job #job description #know

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#become #good #greatly #himself #his