Wishes Quotes

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
Lloyd Chudley Alexander



Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire



Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving



All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
Wystan Hugh Auden



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



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



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



Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
Josiah Royce



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



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



He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull



If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
Alexander III



Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning



I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government.
Robert W. Burke



Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.
Robert Dato