The world likes to be deceived. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Every bird likes its own nest best. [ Proverb ]
Heaven is not always angry when He strikes,
But most chastises those whom most He likes. [ Pomfret ]
He hath profited well that likes Cicero well. [ Proverb ]
Who likes not the drink, God deprives him of bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She that hath spice enough may season as she likes. [ Proverb ]
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
A man's little the better for liking himself, if nobody else likes him. [ Proverb ]
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]
Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds. [ Latena ]
The more anyone speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wise man likes that best, that is itself; Not that which only seems, though it look fairer. [ Middleton ]
It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be seduced? [ William Shakespeare ]
Marta likes to talk about sensuality, but I don't think she would know sensuality if it bit her on the ass." [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear. [ Goethe ]
There are two freedoms, - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. [ Charles Kingsley ]
There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]