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Wish Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
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
- 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
- Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what… — Michel de Montaigne
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton