#pleas

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

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

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#modern #pleasure #provides #speed