Wish Quotes

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Long, Rich, Poor

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Wise, Suffering

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge

Again, Return, Draw

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Said

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
Jacque Fresco

End, Put, Problems

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

Today, Done, Few

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge

Law, Put, Sometimes

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
Al Pacino

Same, Maybe, Asked

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift

Through, Alcohol, Songs

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace

Anger, Cannot, Temper

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker

Actually, Foolish, Avoid

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Men, True, General

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Words, Down, Put

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
Joan Rivers

Plastic, Surgery, Twin

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. Salinger

God, Respect, Sick

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

Character, Resolve, Whining

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Strength, Important, Control

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Word, Less

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin

Help, Suffering, Spirit

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Andy Warhol

Whole, Died, Gotten

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler

Keep, Books, Mine

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

Happy, Care, Few

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Someone, Try, System

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Poetry, Drunk

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Change, Happy

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.
April Winchell

Hope, Thursday, Tolerable

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
John Paul Jones

Fast, Ship, Connection

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos

Life, Power, Rather

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson

Die, Knew, Remembered

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