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Wish Quotes by Mark Twain
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
- I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people…
- Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised…
- Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he…
- Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
- Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish…
- Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
- I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
- I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
- We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we…
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
- Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now…
More Wish Quotes
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Morning is a wonderful opportunity to wish, to love, to care, to smile and to see you in a good mood. — Pacifiersucker
- 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