Leave a jest
When it pleases you best. [ Proverb ]

The first dish pleases all. [ Proverb ]

The ass brays when he pleases. [ Proverb ]

Change generally pleases the rich. [ Horace ]

No dish pleases all palates alike. [ Proverb ]

A golden dart kills where it pleases. [ Proverb ]

The clock goes as it pleases the clerk. [ Proverb ]

The tale runs as it pleases the teller. [ Proverb ]

We are easily persuaded of what pleases us. [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There is something of woman in everything that pleases. [ Dupaty ]

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. [ William Cowper ]

Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbour pleases. [ Proverb ]

Fortune molds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [ Plautus ]

The clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. [ Aubrey de Vere ]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? [ Persius ]

Men say of women what pleases them; women do with men what pleases them. [ De Segur ]

A man who is pleased with no one is more unhappy than he who pleases no one. [ De Saint-Real ]

Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. [ Knigge ]

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. [ Lichtenberg ]

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history. [ Chamfort ]

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. [ Johnson ]

A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart: one is a jewel, the other a treasure. [ Napoleon I ]

What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. [ Seneca ]

A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child: as long as it pleases him, he keeps it; when it ceases to please him, he discards it.

Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. [ Bovee ]

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]