Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alistair Cooke

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Aerin Lauder

When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

Aesop

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Jane Austen

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Janis Joplin

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Billy Collins

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Bode Miller

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Barry Gibb

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Antonin Scalia

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Edward Young

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Edward Young

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

Bliss Carman

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Edward Hirsch

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Edgar Guest

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Brad Bird

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Benjamin Franklin

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Arthur Golden

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Arthur C. Clarke

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.