| Author |
Quotes |
| Anatole France | The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Our necessities never equal our wants. |
| Don Marquis | The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. |
| Frank Kingdon | Make sure you want it enough. |
| Gaelic Proverb | More than we use is more than we want. |
| Henry Fielding | It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. |
| Johann Kaspar Lavater | He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. |
| Latin Proverb | I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. |
| Marilyn Bencosme | A want becomes a have with time. |
| Norwegian Proverb | It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it. |
| Romanian Proverb | Abundance, like want, ruins many. |
| Vietnamese Proverb | If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant. |
| Wendell Phillips | The keener the want the lustier the growth. |
| Yiddish Proverb | If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. |
| Jonathan Swift | The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. |
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