Wish Quotes - page 3

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly)
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. View quote
Frances Burney
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. View quote
Edith Sitwell
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. View quote
Jean Rostand
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. View quote
John Paul Jones
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Giordano Bruno)
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. View quote
Anthony Robbins
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. View quote
Carl Jung
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs. View quote
J. P. Morgan
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. View quote
Novalis
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
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)
I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better. View quote
George Frideric Handel
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. View quote
Norbert Elias
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. View quote
Winston Churchill
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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