Quotes
Quotes about Want
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame--to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Little I ask; my wants are few,
I only want a hut of stone,
(A very plain brownstone will do,)
That I may call my own.
I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.
Wanting is--what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?
Ez fer war, I call it murder,--
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.
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An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
For want of me the world's course will not fail;
When all its work is done the lie shall rot;
The truth is great and shall prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?
The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen.
Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
If you want to rise to the top of the tree
If your soul is n't fettered to an office stool
Be careful to be guided by this golden rule:
Stick close to your desks and never go to sea
And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
"I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!"
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun."
He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
For what constitutes a child?--Ignorance. What constitutes a child?--Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
