Wish Quotes

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

Wanted, Dying, Uncle

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

Time, Him, Explain

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Good, Women, Pretty

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Poetry, Drunk

I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Life, Hope, Experience

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry

Religion, Family, Give

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Good, Men

If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Sense, Personal

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Follow, Push, Wherever

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

Working, Old, Keep

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Less, Duty

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.
Hillary Clinton

Love, End, Happen

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

Fathers, Rebellious, Sons

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden

Thought, Destiny, Become

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Hillary Clinton

Future, Children, Before

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus

Freedom, Live, Nothing

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon

Nothing, Put, Knows

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

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

Doubt, Philosophy, Opinions

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Respect, May, Become

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yourself, Live, Another

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

Special, Whole, Universe

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death, End, Relief

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Alone, Others, Ourselves

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Loved, Willing

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life, Wonderful, Realized

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle

Men, Nothing, Him

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