When ware is liked it is half sold. [ Proverb ]

No man can like all or be liked of all. [ Proverb ]

I really liked it. Even the music was good. [ Yogi Berra, when asked if he liked the opera one evening ]

When a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss. [ Proverb ]

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. [ Zimmermann ]

When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, That which belongs to another. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Costly followers are not to be liked, lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. [ Bacon ]

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. [ Goethe ]

Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]