Wish Quotes

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."
-Mark Twain

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

"A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself."
-Yiddish proverb

"Be as you wish to seem."
-Socrates

"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
-Michael Jordan

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
-Jack Welch

"Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
-Oscar Wilde

"Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that.' Whistler: 'You will, Oscar; you will."
-Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
-Oscar Wilde

"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish."
-Sophocles

"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
-Matt Groening

"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men."
-William R. Alger

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Teresa

"I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."
-William Shakespeare

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
-William Shakespeare

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-Erica Jong

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
-Horace Mann

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
-Epictetus

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
-Ann Landers