If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther

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

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield

I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

We cannot wish for that we know not.
Voltaire

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt