Asking Quote by Hermann Hesse

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He must be a sad fellow on earth whom nobody can please.

— Vikrant Parsai

If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and…

— Ben Fountain

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

— Dante Alighieri

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure…

— Benjamin Franklin

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

— Stephen King

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

— Socrates

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than…

— Rene Descartes

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common…

— Samuel Johnson

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe