Gratify Quotes
65 quotes by 57 authors
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and…
— Alexander Pope
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
— Sun Tzu
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can…
— Benjamin Franklin
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
— Sun Tzu
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So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
— William Penn
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I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it…
— Wallace Stegner
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify,…
— Baruch Spinoza
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own…
— Marcel Proust
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
— William Godwin
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How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and…
— Robert Southey
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Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own…
— John C. Broger
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what…
— Richard Stallman
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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
— Mark Twain
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It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who…
— Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish
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We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are…
— Frederick William Robertson
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either…
— Seneca the Younger
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