| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. |
| Henry S Leigh | I wish I knew the good of wishing. |
| Hesiod | And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. |
| John Langhorne | With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. |
| John Quincy Adams | "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone , That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one In yonder street that fronts the sun. |
| Terence Afer | As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. |
| Edward Young | What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. |
| Edward Young | Man wants but little, nor that little long, How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour! |
| Edward Young | Wishing, of all employments is the worst. |
| Edward Young | He calls his wish, it comes, he sends it back, And says he called another, that arrives, Meets the same welcome, yet he still calls on, Till one calls him, who varies not his call, But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound, Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free, A freedom far less welcome than this chain. |
| Edward Young | What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. |
| Jonathan Swift | I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialhtm | You pursue, I fly, you fly, I pursue, such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do. |
| Thomas Moore | Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. |
| William Shakespeare | Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. |
| William Shakespeare | Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. |
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