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Wish Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my…
- And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been…
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded…
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine