Wishes Quotes

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

H. L. Mencken

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Leonardo da Vinci

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Josiah Royce

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

Catherine McAuley

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Marilyn Manson

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

C.S. Lewis

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edward Young

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de la Bruyere

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Charlie Byrd

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

David Seabury

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C. S. Lewis

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Sophocles

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Ida Lupino