Gratify Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. — William Penn
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
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
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
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. — William Godwin
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
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
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
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
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
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest. — Mark Twain
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
We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them… — Wilford Woodruff
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
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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