Wishes

“Every wishIs like a prayer—with God.”

“If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.”

“Wishing to dare serves no purpose at all, if it remains a wish.”

“What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts.”

“If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.”

“Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.”

“If Wishes were Horses, Beggars would ride.”

“Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.”

“You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.”

“Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.”

“Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.”

“What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.”

“Wishing, of all employments is the worst.”

“He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,A freedom far less welcome than this chain.”

“Man wants but little, nor that little long;Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!”

“What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”

“"Man wants but little here below I still should long for more.”

“O, that I were where I would be, And where I would be I can not.”

“Man wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long.”

“And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.”

“Little I ask; my wants are few;In yonder street that fronts the sun.”

“With all thy sober charms possest,Whose wishes never learnt to stray.”

“I wish I knew the good of wishing.”

“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.”

“If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.”

“I've often wished that I had clear,Of land, set out to plant a wood.”

“Wishers and woulders be small householders.”