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Wishes Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
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- 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
- 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
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore
- The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
- Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent… — George Ade