WISH

Related Subjects: Desire, Hope, Will

1. Every wish is like a prayer—with God.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

2. Men whose dearest wishes are fixed on objects wholly out of their own power, become in all cases more or less impatient and prone to anger.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

3. All her commands were gracious, sweet requests.
   How could it be then, but that her requests
   Must need have sounded to me as commands?—COLERIDGE, Zapolya
   

4. Most men let their wishes run away with them. They have no mind to stop them in their career, the motion is so pleasing.—LORD HALIFAX, Works
   

5. The evil wish is most evil to the wisher.—HESIOD, Works and Days
   

6. When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.—D. H. LAWRENCE, Riches
   

7. I wish I knew the good of wishing.—H. S. LEIGH, A Day for Wishing
   

8. You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.—MOLIERE, George Dandin
   

9. We live, not as we wish to but as we can.—MENANDER, The Lady of Andros
   

10. Wishes never filled the bag.—Proverb
    

11. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.—Proverb
    

12. Wishers were ever fools.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

13. Your heart's desires be with you!—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

14. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

15. Take this in good part, whatsoever thou be,
    And wish me no worse than I wish unto thee.—THOMAS 'FUSSER, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie
    

16. We cannot wish for that we know not.—VOLTAIRE, Zaire
    

17. Wishing, of all employments, is the worst;
    Philosophy's reverse, and health's decay!—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts
    

18. Like our shadows,
    Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts