A Quote by Laozi

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Laozi

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

Chanakya

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

Terry Pratchett

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

Joshua Reynolds

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

Marianne Moore

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

Jocelyn Murray

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Ann Brashares

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

Michel de Montaigne

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

Greg Laurie

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Christian Louboutin

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

Ben Howard

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

Chanakya

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

Natalie Kusz

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Christian Louboutin

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Chanakya

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

Harry Kemelman

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