Quotes on Wish

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.