Quotes
Quotes about Wishes
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Destiny has two ways of crushing usâ by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
