Wish Quotes

Be as you wish to seem. (Socrates)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. View quote
Joseph Addison
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. View quote
Quintilian
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. View quote
Menander
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. View quote
Seneca
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. View quote
Erica Jong
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. View quote
Carl Sagan
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. View quote
William Hazlitt
A goal without a pan is just a wish. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. View quote
John Adams
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. View quote
Montesquieu
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower